The Only Thing Worth Dying For

The book of my choice is a none-fiction book it is about the invasion to

Afghanistan. Its titled The Only Thing Worth Dying For. The book
contains four hundred pages, the print date was January 8, 2010; and was
published in January 19, 2010 by Harper. The authors were Eric Blehm and
Captain Jason Amerie.
The main character on this story its Captain Jason Amerie, he is a tall,
blonde guy measures 63, with lean muscles. A well educated and well
conducted young man. CPT Amerie loved being in the Special Forces teams,
the young Captain had been in the team for less than two years, and he had
deployed to multiple countries with Special Forces. ODA 534, was his team
commander and loved every member of ODA 534, they were brothers in
arms. There was nothing in the world he wouldnt do for his fellow teams
members.
The sequence of events start when a group of special forces soldiers from
the United States Army get called to respond on the attacks during
September 11. On a moonless night just weeks after September 11, 2001,
U.S. Special Forces team ODA 574 infiltrates the mountains of southern
Afghanistan with a seemingly impossible mission: to foment a tribal revolt
and force the Taliban to surrender. American Special Forces are highly
trained in unconventional warfare, and they master the art of gorilla warfare;
adapting a untrained militia to become a trained army that they can assess in
their favor. Armed solely with the equipment they can carry on their backs,
shockingly scant intelligence, and their mastery of guerrilla warfare, Captain
Jason Amerine and his men have no choice but to trust their only ally, a
little-known Pashtun statesman named Hamid Karzai who has returned from
exile and is being hunted by the Taliban as he travels the countryside raising
a militia. They encounter several gunfight with armies of Taliban fighter,
outnumber and outgunned they strive for success.
With little help from above, the flying fortress of American air force
firepower, they come close to annihilation in multiple occasions, due to the
heavily armed Taliban forces. Being wounded in a combat zone with no help
puts the teams combat effectiveness on high level, because they have to do
every procedure by themselves. Just every so often getting a few air supplies
to survive and to keep their allies happy and continue fighting by their side,
the group keeps it professionalism at all times. By aiding Mr. Hamid Karzai,

in his quest for a free Afghanistan they create a relationship with this man, a
relationship that goes beyond friendship, they develop a brotherhood.
Unfortunately, the work suffers from the same handicap as the mission: as
everything is political, the soldiers can't engage without an OK from
Washington. And while escorting Karzai is a decent and worthy mission,
there's just far less contact in mountainous Afghanistan than urbanized Iraq.
This story concludes with the arrival of ODB 534 to Afghanistan, members
of the Special Forces Battalion compose ODB 534, they were all high
ranking officers, who had been once before in the A-Teams. They were
hungry of medals and some actions, but being part of ODB they were more
office administration. The men of ODA were sketch due to all those officers
that have arrived, and the thought that the mission could be jeopardized by
their presence. Two weeks later the teams get involved in a firefight with
over 300 insurgents, around the outside of Kandahar. As the A-team got
pinned, the C130, overhead called jet fighters to aid and or drop a five
thousand pounds bomb. The C130 supported them until it was needed for
them to return to refuel. As the jets approach the members of ODB gave the
jets the coordinates to drop the bomb. When the jet dropped the bomb there
was a moment of silence; they had realized the bombs were dropped on top
of friendly forces. The members of ODB had gave them mistakenly the
coordinates in between the friendlies and the enemies. As CPT Amerie
radios to see what had happened, he realized that most of ODA were dead
the even he was injured dramatically.
I would definitely recommend this book, The Only Thing Worth Dying
For because is the most important mission in the early days of the Global
War on Terror, when the men on the ground knew little about the enemy
and their commanders in Washington knew even less. With unprecedented
access to surviving members of ODA 574, key war planners, and Karzai
himself, award-winning author Eric Blehm cuts through the noise of
politicians and high-level military officials to narrate for the first time a
story of uncommon bravery and terrible sacrifice, intimately exposing the
realities of unconventional warfare and nation-building in Afghanistan that
continue to shape the region today.