Photo: Col. Harry D. Tunnell IV, commander of 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. Photograph courtesy U.S. Army.Search and Destroy -- Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Slate
One Stryker battalion lost more men in Afghanistan than any other. Who was the gung-ho colonel in charge?
Following is an excerpt from Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan, by Rajiv Candrasekaran, out this week from Knopf.
As top Army commanders cast about for spare troops to go to Kandahar in 2009, they settled upon a brigade that had never deployed to a war zone and had spent the previous year preparing for a tour in Iraq. The unit’s commander, Col. Harry Tunnell, got the message about his new mission while he and his troops were conducting their last major exercise before shipping off to Iraq.
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My Comment: Not a happy ending.
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