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Starting off 2026 with some hefty non-fiction: DEGRADE AND DESTROY: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump by Michael R. Gordon.
Published back in 2022 this is the first book that Gordon wrote solo. He had written three books with Lt. General Bernard Trainor (USMC, Retired) when they both worked as military correspondents for the New York Times. Starting in 2017 Gordon began working in the same capacity for the Wall Street Journal.
The three previous books, which are part of my permanent library, are THE GENERAL'S WAR (1995), COBRA II (2006), and THE ENDGAME (2013) and cover the first Persian Gulf War (aka Operation Desert Storm) and the U.S. invasion of Iraq starting in 2003.
Sadly, Trainor (who served in Korea and did two tours in Vietnam) passed away in 2018 at the age of eighty-nine. But so far Gordon is keeping the quality level right up there with his previous works.
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