Reddit reviews Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda
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The initial capture of Kabul and Kandahar was done with no support units or regular infantry on the ground, just SF and air strikes. It was literally about 100 Green Berets working with CIA embeds with Afghani Northern Alliance troops. The Bush Admin didn't want to have any regular forces on the ground, thinking that it would cause resentment towards the US similar to what the Russians went through in their war. Regular forces were brought in for Operation Anaconda in the last legs of the initial war, because there was intel that senior Al Qaeda leadership was stuck there on their way to Pakistan.
Not a Good Day to Die goes over the early events in the war, and it really is as crazy as I'm making it sound.