Reddit reviews The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor

One of the best that I've read about combat in Afghanistan is by Jake Tapper, called The Outpost.

The story is about COP Keating in the Nuristan region of Afghanistan, also known as the battle of Kamdesh.

It's a long read though very descriptive about the 173rd Airborne Brigades fight for the base.

I think that someone is going to produce a movie about the battle, if it turns out to be half as good as the book then it will be one of the better movies about Afghanistan.

Here's a story on NPR from Jake Tapper called The outpost that should have never been.

The Outpost by Jake Tapper tells the story of Outpost Keating. I haven't finished the whole book yet, but he consistently reiterates the poor combat decision to place the output there (as well as the lives lost because of it). I plan on reading SSGT Romesha's new book (Red Platoon) once it's out too.

Thank you for the candor in the way you expressed your reply.

If you're up for some military reading material sometime, give The Outpost a look. I served there with the 173rd airborne in the same 15-month deployment as the events of Restrepo and the Battle of Wanat.

Our unit didn't have an embedded documentary crew, but the book I mentioned covers 4 deployments worth of time from the perspective of the 4 different units that occupied and fought at Camp Keating from its concept and creation until it was eventually overran by the enemy.