Contrary to my opinion of Jake Tapper's reading of his novel, his narration of "The Outpost" was superb. No one could have done it better.

I have never been to war, but I know abuse and do have PTSD. This book was not easy to read due to its intensity. I felt drained from the loss of these men.

It was a stupid place to put an outpost. ( )

The sad story of the war in Afghanistan and the brave men and women who fought there, especially at Combat Outpost Keating, those working throughout Kunar and Nuristan Province. That leaders in America failed these men and women from completing their mission due to the Iraq war. Where many men died because of the hubris of Colonels and Generals asking men to do stupid things knowing that the outcome would be bad ( )

What an excellent, exciting, and emotionally moving read! Jake Tapper covers the events during America's counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan, concentrating a small outposts, especially Camp Keating, that was in the middle of a valley surrounded by mountains, hundreds of insurgents, and lacking both the necessary firepower and manpower to effectively hold them. The American soldiers were attacked practically everyday, sometimes with potshots taken at them, other times with hundreds of insurgents coming down the surrounding mountains with more than enough of their own firepower to meet, if not overpower, than in the small outposts.

Tapper shows us the complications of war, its failures and successes, its gains and losses, and the toll it takes on our fighting men who are, so it seems, ignored by the American mainland most likely because, the war having gone on, at the time the book was written, for more than 10 years, "familiarity breeds contempt," a very sad and unworthy response towards those who fight to preserve our freedoms. This is a must read. ( )

The book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, is a book of heroism, sacrifice, betrayal, honor, and confusion. It tells the true story of an American outpost in remote Afghanistan that is constantly under attack from rebel forces, and in the end, faces the fact that the whole reason for Outpost was flawed.

The author Jake Tapper examines the reasons for the outpost, and describes in heartbreaking detail the efforts American soldiers undertook to keep the outpost from Rebel attack. Each soldier is described honestly, and each death or injury came as a blow.

This is a terrific book describing the war in Afghanistan, the heroism and sacrifice of American soldiers put in an impossible place. ( )

A tough read, a good read, and a depressing read. I firmly believe that we have been at war for so long because so many of us are so removed from it. This book is a good antidote. ( )