Act Five: the End of America in Afghanistan
About This Novel
Elliott Aikman can be said to be a veteran of the United States' "War on Terror." Since the war in Afghanistan started in 2001, he has joined the U. S. Marine Corps Reconnaissance Company, Special Operations Forces, and the CIA. He has fought in two battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan for ten years, and has won the Silver Star Medal, the Bronze Star Medal, and the Purple Heart Medal. This veteran personally experienced the bloodshed, cruelty and instability of this war, and witnessed the ugly face of war, from raids to ambush, from suppression to assassination, and voluntarily chose to retire in 2011. However, the war did not exit his life. ? In August 2021, when news of the fall of Kabul came, the former special forces soldier who was on vacation with his family in Rome had to think about the inevitable sunset of today's empire among the ruins of the past empire, and could not help but participate in that war for the last time in a way that he had not foreseen, writing a bleak final chapter for it.
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