Book Review: BENGHAZI: THE DEFINITIVE REPORT by Jack Murphy and Brandon Webb
The events of September 11th, 2012, suffered the effects of happening in an election year. The opposition party attempted to use it as political capital to cash in at the voting booth, and the ruling party did its best to sweep it underneath the rug. Media outlets have either aired narratives that have no factual basis or have lauded the current administration without asking the tough questions that their predecessors of lore would have. For a while, it seemed that the entire event had been swept under the rug, and four dead Americans were swept underneath with it.
What the administration didn't count on was the fact that two of the four dead belonged to a fraternity that has a very long memory. Glen Doherty and Ty Woods were both former Navy SEALs, and their deaths being hand-waved and misrepresented by the media and the politicians definitely caused disenfranchisement within the Special Operations Forces community. This is the driving factor between what drove Jack Murphy and Brandon Webb--both former SOF operators, authors in their own right, and editors of the former SOF-run website SOFREP--to engage in a piece of investigative journalism the likes of which has not been seen in mainstream media for some time.
Benghazi: The Definitive Report does what any good news story does: sets the stage with the four Ws and H, details the events with eyewitness reports, and then debunks myths from both major political factions. As it says within the book, the truth is often stranger than fiction, and this report is demonstrative of that. Operations being run outside of the chain of command, poking into a hornet's nest, and clear evidence of what Richard Marcinko would call "stove-piping," where the left hand doesn't talk to the right, are all major factors of what led to the tragic events of 9/11/2012. It opens the eyes of the American public to what really happened behind the scenes, and furthermore, offers a glimpse into our nation's foreign policy that the powers-that-be would rather keep from the populace.
As the book says, an informed populace is a crucial component of a democracy. It would behoove every American to pick up this eBook and give it a read. One could read it over their lunch break and walk away knowing more in that solitary hour-long period than what any media outlet, mainstream or alternative, has produced in the past five months. Simply put, this is a book nobody in Washington, D.C. wants you to read, which is all the more reason why everybody should read it.
You can purchase Benghazi: The Definitive Report for the Amazon Kindle here.
What the administration didn't count on was the fact that two of the four dead belonged to a fraternity that has a very long memory. Glen Doherty and Ty Woods were both former Navy SEALs, and their deaths being hand-waved and misrepresented by the media and the politicians definitely caused disenfranchisement within the Special Operations Forces community. This is the driving factor between what drove Jack Murphy and Brandon Webb--both former SOF operators, authors in their own right, and editors of the former SOF-run website SOFREP--to engage in a piece of investigative journalism the likes of which has not been seen in mainstream media for some time.
Benghazi: The Definitive Report does what any good news story does: sets the stage with the four Ws and H, details the events with eyewitness reports, and then debunks myths from both major political factions. As it says within the book, the truth is often stranger than fiction, and this report is demonstrative of that. Operations being run outside of the chain of command, poking into a hornet's nest, and clear evidence of what Richard Marcinko would call "stove-piping," where the left hand doesn't talk to the right, are all major factors of what led to the tragic events of 9/11/2012. It opens the eyes of the American public to what really happened behind the scenes, and furthermore, offers a glimpse into our nation's foreign policy that the powers-that-be would rather keep from the populace.
As the book says, an informed populace is a crucial component of a democracy. It would behoove every American to pick up this eBook and give it a read. One could read it over their lunch break and walk away knowing more in that solitary hour-long period than what any media outlet, mainstream or alternative, has produced in the past five months. Simply put, this is a book nobody in Washington, D.C. wants you to read, which is all the more reason why everybody should read it.
You can purchase Benghazi: The Definitive Report for the Amazon Kindle here.
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