Ebook {Epub PDF} Swimming With Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War by Kevin Sites

Sites talked with ex-Taliban fighters, politicians, female cops, farmers, drug addicts, and diplomats, and patrolled with American and Afghan soldiers. In Swimming with Warlords he helps us understand this country of primitive beauty, dark mysteries, and savage violence, as well as the conflict that has cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives—and what we might expect tomorrow and in the years to www.doorway.ru by: 1. The latest, Swimming with Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War, was released October He’s also the author of, In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars and The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done or Failed to Estimated Reading Time: 1 min. The latest, Swimming with Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War, was released October He’s also the author of, In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars and The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done or Failed to Estimated Reading Time: 1 min.

Kevin Sites has spent the past decade reporting on global war and disaster for ABC, NBC, CNN, and Yahoo! News. In , he became Yahoo!'s first correspondent and covered every major conflict in the world in a single year for his website, "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone." The project helped inspire the use of "backpack journalism" as tool for immersive reporting. Swimming With Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War (Oct. ), The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen Done or Failed to Do in War (Jan), In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty-Wars (Oct. ). Kevin Sites. Kevin Sites has spent the past decade reporting on global war and disaster for ABC, NBC, CNN, and Yahoo! News. In , he became Yahoo!'s first correspondent and covered every major conflict in the world in a single year for his website, "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone.". The project helped inspire the use of "backpack.

In Swimming with Warlords, Sites examines Afghanistan today through the prism of those two parallel journeys, exploring that nation’s past and considering its future in light of the drawdown of U.S. troops. As he tells the stories of the people he met—how they have been affected by this conflict that has cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives—Sites provides a fresh perspective on Afghanistan and America’s role there. In “Swimming with Warlords”, Kevin Sites offers a personal account of two distinct, but ultimately quite similar, periods in Afghan history: the fall of the Taliban in and the withdrawal of US combat troops in / He interviewed warlords, ex-Taliban fighters, politicians, women cops and dentists, farmers, drug addicts, international aid workers, diplomats, and military personnel. In Swimming with Warlords, Sites examines Afghanistan today through the prism of those two parallel journeys, exploring that nation's past and considering its future in light of the drawdown of U.S. troops.