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Afghanistan War veteran and author Elliot Ackerman talked about his first-hand account of the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. This event was hosted by the St. Louis County Library in…

Afghanistan experts, who have engaged with during the war and the aftermath of the U.S. troop withdrawal from the country, spoke about the lasting impacts of the 20-year military…

Elliott Ackerman and Clay Risen talked about the U.S. military and its rise as a global power. Mr. Risen is the author of The Crowded Hour, and Mr. Ackerman wrote Places and Names: On War,…

Alia Malek, author of The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria; Christopher Phillips, author of The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East; and Elliot…

Elliot Ackerman talked about his novel, Green on Blue, about an Afghan boy who joins a U.S. funded militia following the U.S. invasion.