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Elliot Ackerman served five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, during which time, he says, he witnessed the best and worst that human beings are capable of. Originally broadcast Nov. 11, 2021.
Elliot Ackerman served five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, during which time, he says, he witnessed the best and worst that human beings are capable of. Originally broadcast Nov. 11, 2021.
The horror of urban warfare, of the type looming in Gaza, holds a unique grip on the imagination. Images from Stalingrad and Hue City and Fallujah, and more recently from Bakhmut and Mariupol, are etched on the popular memory: desperate men fighting building to building through bombed-out streets, where peril might lurk in every window and around every corner.