Warriors and Nation Builders

"Surprisingly readable, considering the subject matter. (H/T Barnett Rubin’s listserv) And I do like books that you can download:

Andy Tamas, Warriors and Nation Builders: Development and the Military in Afghanistan, (Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2009). Download PDF.

And only in the colonies: “Copyright © 2009 Her Majesty the Queen, in right of Canada as represented by the Minister of National Defence.”

I’m to busy to give a well thought out analysis of this great book. So I’ll just throw out some excerpts:

“You development workers are nothing but a bunch of Birkenstock wearing, granola-munching tree huggers.”
– Colonel Mike Capstick, Commander, SAT-A, Kabul, September 2005.

Ghost of Alexander