Foxtrot in Kandahar: A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America's Longest War

by Duane Evans

sometimes leaders have to take care of their people even if it means not obeying an order, no matter the possible consequences for the leader.

taking care of and protecting your people was the most important thing you could do, because it was your people who were ultimately going to be the ones who would accomplish the mission.

Probably half of the dead were holders of Turkish passports, the others were Saudis or Yeminis, and a couple of them were from Morocco.

Impersonal and random. These are two things I have learned are true about war.

“Never turn away free man or slave, by day or night, though you may be sleeping, eating, or bathing, if he says he has news for you.” Nicephorus II Phocas Byzantine Emperor