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| Moment of Truth in Iraq | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Richard Vigilante Books
Category: EBooks
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  116 reviews
Sales Rank: 46894
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
ASIN: B001CE5NV4
Publication Date: July 9, 2008
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Journalism as practiced by an adult April 15, 2008
40 out of 45 found this review helpful
An authoritative first-hand account of our Soldiers' actions in Iraq. Yon clearly lays out the story of our actions for good and bad. He evidently came in-country about the time I was leaving. He tells the story as I saw it and as my friends there now report it.
Yon doesn't mind saying who the good guys are. He names names and quotes directly.
It's riveting reading. There are far too few writers like Michael Yon. Hell, there are far too few people like Mike Yon.
 Moment of Truth April 16, 2008
34 out of 38 found this review helpful
Michael yon is a new breed of war reporter. Self financing, obligated to no one, trained in military operations, devoid of domestic politics, fearless as a reporter.
In Moment of Truth, Mr. Yon brings the adrenaline rush of first contact to the reader as only a long term embed with US soldiers and marines can. Yon describes the shameless brutality of the insurgents, the bravery of the Iraqi troops and police, and the underlining goodness of our all-volunteer forces.
This is a must read for those who want to understand the harsh facts on the ground in Iraq. This book is not about domestic politics. It is about a just mission to bring peace to a troubled region. A just mission performed by the best military ever assembled.
I highly recommend this book.
Moment of Truth in Iraq April 12, 2008
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
This is the story of the soldiers, Marines who fought all over Iraq from a man who spent 2005 and 2007 in Iraq. There is no one better at telling the story of our people fighting over there. I recommend this book very highly. If you're a fan of his blog you recognize the stories, they are engrossing and they will make you proud of our men and women in uniform. Our leaders... well maybe not so much. Michael never pulls his punches so you will get the good and the bad. Buy it!
Speaks clearly about a complex situation April 13, 2008
26 out of 29 found this review helpful
Michael Yon puts into perspective the changes needed to allow America to win in Iraq. This book will not be popular among entrenched advocates of conventional warfare, but it is critical to their moving forward as servants of the national interest. Going far beyond the sand tables of West Point to the sands of Anbar province, Michael Yon shares the insight gained observing the war in Iraq from walking the alleys to chatting with Ministers and Generals.
Certain to be on the required reading lists of many military organizations. Essential to understanding what is going on in Iraq today.
 Lacking in specifics May 16, 2008
18 out of 34 found this review helpful
While I found this a useful and thought-provoking book, I also thought it would have benefited greatly from another hundred or even two hundred pages of exposition. When Yon mentions Fallujah, for example, he states quickly and casually that American actions there were badly conceived, or badly run, or both -- it's a little hard to tell -- but does not go into details.
The sort of details I have in mind are things like: a) what led up to the decision to go into Fallujah and to go in the way we did? Not just the murder of a couple of US personnel -- a good deal more background than that, please! b) what factors made these decisions wrong? c) why should these factors have been known in advance, or if they were, why were they ignored? d) what were the immediate results of the battles of Fallujah and how did these results affect longer-term issues? and e) what should have been done instead? I mean, Yon surely would not have advocated leaving the terrorists dug in in Fallujah until the Iraqi forces had improved enough to tear them out, right? So what WOULD he have recommended?
Rather than addressing such questions, Yon seems to take for granted a certain (large) amount of background information on the part of the reader, plus some (broad) areas of agreement that his readers will naturally share with him. Perhaps his intended reader is the reader who has all along been following his reports from Iraq, but that leaves a whole lot of people out in the cold. If this background is lacking, how is one to evaluate that the basically unsupported assertions Yon frequently makes?
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