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FICTION Firehammer. By Col. Ric Hunter, USAF (Ret), Life Member. Red Engine Press. ISBN 978-1- 9379-5845-9.
Gabrielle: The Dove in the Court of King Henri IV. By Maj. Mark Druck, USAFR (Ret). Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4691-8888-1.
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Garage Sale Stalker. By Suzi Weinert. Barrin- ger Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9828-4259-1.
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“Look Who I Won in a Poker Game!” By Maj. Mark Druck, USAFR (Ret). Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4257-0899-3.
Misty Fyord Is Missing. By Col. William J. Storey, USA (Ret), Life Member. Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4797-7785-3.
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Starhawk. By former Navy Lt. j.g. Jack McDevitt, Life Member, Golden Isles (Ga.) Chapter. Ace Books. ISBN 978-0-4252-6085-2.
The World’s Greatest Military Investi- gators Ultimate Book of War Stories. By CWO3 Michael J. Oszman, USA (Ret). Cre- ateSpace. ISBN 978-1-4820-7681-3.
Undying. By CWO4 William D. Hoy, USA (Ret), Life Member. Trafford Publishing. ISBN 978-1- 4251-8033-1.
NONFICTION Anti-Access Warfare: Countering A2/AD Strategies. By Capt. Sam J. Tangredi, USN (Ret), Life Member. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-6125-1186-3.
Life in the Wild Blue Yonder: Jet Fighter Pilot Stories From the Cold War. By Lt. Col. John Lowery, USAF (Ret), Life Member. Amazon Books. ISBN 978-1-4791-0013-2.
Living With the Shadow Warriors: Sto- ries by the Wives of the Navy’s Ferret Flyers. Essays by Pauline L. Varner, Life Member, and others. Socotra House Publishing. ISBN 978-1-9368-6600-7.
MEMOIR Corregidor: Has Anyone Seen My Father? Last Known Address Was the Oryoku Maru. By Gloria Rowland Bagby, Auxiliary Life Member. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-4520-2943-6.
Flying High: Memoir of a Thirty Year Adventure. By Col. Richard Gould Woodhull Jr., USAF (Ret). Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4931-0340-9.
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diers will stand and fight for, so like the ARVN, it will collapse. No nation, no mat- ter how powerful, can
change the culture of another. After our strategic political failure in 2001 and 2002 and without a Pashtun king to offset the religious authority of the Taliban, there was never any possi- bility of creating a stable state in Af- ghanistan. The war is now America’s longest and most unpopular, and we have lost it. All intelligence reports, including the latest National Intel- ligence Estimate, say the situation on the ground is dismal and getting worse. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over with a tenth the level of effort and expecting a different result is the definition of national strategic failure.
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sional ANSF. And, of course, NATO’s repu- tation is squarely on the line with the out- come after 2014.
The bottom line is this: With secu-
rity, all things are possible; without it, almost nothing we’ve done can long endure. Enduring security will rely, in large measure, on the enduring West- ern presence after 2014. The future of Afghanistan does not lie in the hands of the Taliban, nor will it be fashioned in Islamabad or Tehran. The future of Afghanistan actually will be decided in Washington, D.C., and Brussels, hopefully informed from the lessons of the post-Soviet era and the devas- tating result of our departure in the early 1990s. It is within our reach to prevent the outcome for which the Taliban thirst. Preventing another Najibullah is more our decision than it will ever be the Taliban’s.
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