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Green on Blue

  • Writer: Kathy Miller
    Kathy Miller
  • Jul 10, 2022
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jun 22, 2023

Elliot Ackerman, 2015 Date Read: 7/10/22




Denoting or relating to an attack made on one's own side by forces regarded as neutral.

I enjoyed reading Ackerman's other entry on the List, 2034: a Novel of the Next War although it was frightening (and almost certainly prescient.)


This novel is equally well written and engaging, and equally frightening and heart-rending. Essentially, it illustrates how the West manipulates internal forces in Afghanistan to maintain an enemy to fight. I don't doubt this is correct. Especially as Ackerman served there and witnessed it all himself.


Heartbreaking.


Length: 242 pages in hardback

Rereadability: it is very sad so, unlikely

Classic: I think it will be in the future when we are looking back on the destruction of the Middle East


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