Elliot Ackerman | Full Episode 9.9.22 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS

One year after U.S. troops left Afghanistan and 21 years after 9/11, Marine veteran and author Elliot Ackerman reflects on the war’s strategic failures, his own efforts to get Afghans out, and the dangers of America’s growing civil-military divide.

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