Hazardous duty
one of America's most decorated soldiers reports from the front with the truth about the U.S. military today
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Author
Contributions
- Mathews, Tom. - Contributor
Publication
1997 - Avon Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
88,250 words, Guess
Page Count
353 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivehazardousdutyone0000hack
- ISBN-100380727420
- ISBN-139780380727421
- Goodreads650993
- LibraryThing65218
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- Library of Congress Control Number96019169
- Better World Books9780380727421
- Open LibraryOL23065809M
Classifications
- DDC355/.0092
- LCCU53.H25 A3 1996
Description
In Hazardous Duty - a real life, nonfiction thriller set in the ruins of Bosnia and the sands of Saudi Arabia, the deadly alleys of Mogadishu and the teeming streets of Port-au-Prince - Colonel David Hackworth completes a second tour of battlefield duty, this time as a war correspondent. In his hard-hitting, inimitable style, he tells of the sacrifices of ordinary grunts in the Balkans, the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Korea, and Haiti, and offers a tough-love critique of American military leadership, explaining America's role in new post-Cold War conflicts. Colonel David H. Hackworth is America's most decorated living soldier, with more than one hundred awards, including two Distinguished Service Crosses, nine Silver Stars, eight Bronze Stars for valor, and eight Purple Hearts, which he considers the most meaningful because, he says, "they can't be faked." More than any other military commentator, he has the trust and confidence of the millions of soldiers - from foreign armies as well as our own - who cheered every word of his widely acclaimed autobiography. A wake-up call for military reform, Hazardous Duty pulls no punches in calling America's top political and military leaders to account for selling out duty, honor, and country. Colonel Hackworth returns from America's new battlefields to report that the Pentagon is wasting billions of dollars. He offers no-nonsense solutions for streamlining the military services and rationalizing their missions to confront the new face of war.
First Sentence
The A-10 Warthogs were blistering an Iraqi position on a ridge about two kilometers in front of me-bombing, strafing, rocketing.
Excerpt
The A-10 Warthogs were blistering an Iraqi position on a ridge about two kilometers in front of me-bombing, strafing, rocketing.
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- Biography
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