Fatima Abo Alasrar; Shuaib Almosawa; Lieutenant Colonel Charles Armstrong’s “Ambushes—Still Viable as a Combat Tactic” (Juan Pablo quotes the opening lines defining an ambush); Deni Béchard; Carlos G. Berrios; Adrian Bonenberger’s Afghan Post; Virginia Bouvier’s Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War; Mark Bowden’s Killing Pablo and “Jihadists in Paradise”; Deborah Campell’s A Disappearance in Damascus (there is one direct quote from this book in which, with the author’s permission, I repurpose a line from her translator, Ahlam); Brian Castner’s All the Ways We Kill and Die; Kate Clark; Jesús Abad Colorado; Iona Craig; Jorge Delgado; Jhon Jairo Díez’s “Violencia Homicidia y Fuerza Pública: Medellín 1987–1993”; Agusto Bahamón Dussán’s Mi Guerra en Medellín; Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Marcos Palacios, and Ana María Gómez López’s The Colombia Reader; Vanda Felbab-Brown; Jim Grant’s “One Tribe at a Time”; Natalia Herrera; Pat Hoy II’s “Soldiers and Scholars”; Ethan Kapstein’s Seeds of Stability (from which one line is quoted by Juan Pablo, with the permission of the author); Robert A. Karl’s Forgotten Peace; Juanita León’s País de Plomo; Kevin Maurer’s Gentlemen Bastards and Lions of Kandahar (coauthored with Rusty Bradley); Emily Mayhew’s A Heavy Reckoning; Christopher Mitchell and Sara Ramírez’s “Local Peace Communities in Colombia”; Luke Mogelson; Alfredo Molano’s Desterrados; David Morris; Mark Moyar, Hector Pagan, and Wil R. Griego’s Persistent Engagement in Colombia (as well as Adam Isacson’s annotations to that text); P. J. O’Rourke’s Driving Like Crazy; John Otis’s Law of the Jungle; Marjorie Pennington’s Bringing Home the War; María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo’s My Life as a Colombian Revolutionary; Mark Phillips’s “How to Fell a Tree”; Douglas Porch; Dana Priest’s “Covert Action in Colombia”; RAND Corporation’s “Building Special Operations Partnerships in Afghanistan and Beyond”; Sune Engel Rasmussen’s “Kabul’s Drivers Get Their Feelings Across with Windshield Stickers”; John Renehan’s “The Devil You Know”; Linda Robinson’s One Hundred Victories; Edwin Cruz Rodríguez’s “La Protesta Campesina en el Catatumbo”; María Teresa Rondersos’s Guerras Recicladas; Aram Roston’s “A Middle East Monarchy Hired American Ex-Soldiers to Kill Its Political Enemies. This Could Be the Future of War”; Noah Rothman; Paul Staniland; Abbey Steele’s Democracy and Displacement in Colombia’s Civil War; Jeffrey Stern’s “From Arizona to Yemen: The Journey of an American Bomb”; Winifred Tate’s Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats; Michael Taussig’s, Law in a Lawless Land; Heidi Vogt’s “When a Bomb Goes Off in Afghanistan”; Jeremy Waldron’s “Named and Targeted”; and Bing West.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Phil Klay is a veteran of the US Marine Corps. His short story collection Redeployment won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best debut work in any genre, and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by The New York Times. His nonfiction work won the George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Journalism, Arts & Letters in the category of Cultural & Historical Criticism in 2018. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and the Brookings Institution's Brookings Essay series. He currently teaches fiction at Fairfield University.
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