New book on Afghanistan war is revealing, misleading

The book’s subtitle implies that somehow one conventional clash with the Taliban 12 years ago saved Afghanistan. It didn’t.

Retired major-general David Fraser wrote the recently released book Operation Medusa: The Furious Battle That Saved Afghanistan from the Taliban. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

May 30, 2018

OTTAWA— Retired major-general David Fraser has just released a book, Operation Medusa: The Furious Battle That Saved Afghanistan from the Taliban, about his days as the Canadian commander of NATO forces in southern Afghanistan during this battle in September 2006. In the interest of full...

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