Summary of Jon Krakauer's Where Men Win Glory

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The life force is not a divine spark, but something that makes those who have it fully human. It is the foundation of eros, and it makes people think more intensely, see more, and feel more.
#2 When Pat Tillman was eleven years old, he joined the all-star team in his town, and it was here that he first learned about his extraordinary athletic ability. He soon decided to quit baseball and focus on football, even though he had only played football for a year.
#3 In the town of Fremont, near Oakland, California, is where Pat Tillman was born. He was a star linebacker for the Leland football team, and eventually a member of the National Football League.
#4 Afghanistan’s relationship with the Soviets began under the leadership of Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud Khan, a Pashtun with fleshy jowls and a shaved head, who was appointed in 1953 by his cousin and brother-in-law, King Mohammed Zahir Shah.

Sujets

• Afghan War
• Histoire
• Military
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 16 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822512450
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Jon Krakauer's Where Men Win Glory
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The life force is not a divine spark, but something that makes those who have it fully human. It is the foundation of eros, and it makes people think more intensely, see more, and feel more.

#2

When Pat Tillman was eleven years old, he joined the all-star team in his town, and it was here that he first learned about his extraordinary athletic ability. He soon decided to quit baseball and focus on football, even though he had only played football for a year.

#3

In the town of Fremont, near Oakland, California, is where Pat Tillman was born. He was a star linebacker for the Leland football team, and eventually a member of the National Football League.

#4

Afghanistan’s relationship with the Soviets began under the leadership of Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud Khan, a Pashtun with fleshy jowls and a shaved head, who was appointed in 1953 by his cousin and brother-in-law, King Mohammed Zahir Shah.

#5

In Afghanistan, political expression has often been synonymous with mayhem. In 1978, a funeral for a popular communist leader turned into a seething protest march, and the PDPA, led by President Daoud, took power. The brutality of the PDPA inspired a grassroots insurrection that quickly escalated into full-blown civil war.

#6

The war in Afghanistan was a trap set by the CIA to draw the Soviets into a Vietnam-like debacle. The Afghans used small bands of ten or fifteen men to ambush the Soviets, then vanished back into the landscape before the Soviets could launch counterattacks.

#7

The Soviets also began to use antipersonnel mines, which were specifically created to attract very young Afghans. The mines were designed to flutter gently to earth and then arm upon impact, maiming and killing the children.

#8

The Afghan war was supported by the CIA under President Ronald Reagan, and the most effective commander was Jalaluddin Haqqani, who was fluent in Arabic and had an Arab wife. He was brought to the United States and feted at the White House.

#9

The mujahideen were able to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan in 1988, and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, heralding the imminent dissolution of the Soviet empire. However, the American government acted as a proxy army, giving the West a free ride.

#10

The CIA delivered several hundred million dollars to the mujahideen just to make sure the Soviet Union didn’t change its mind about causing further mischief in South Asia. But in the final days of 1991, when the Council of Republics of the Supreme Soviet officially dissolved the Soviet Union, the CIA concluded that the Afghan freedom fighters were no longer of any use to it.

#11

Tillman was a nonstop talker as a child, and this exuberance would become one of his signature traits. He was a loud, happy, and rambunctious youth who loved sports.

#12

The Army firebase near the hill where Pat was killed was named after him: Forward Operating Base Tillman. The Afghan National Army recruits and the Haqqani Network fighters who were there were under the influence of hashish and naswar, a sticky brown powder that is placed between the lip and the gum.

#13

The Pashtun tribesmen who work at FOB Tillman have a code of honor, pride, and revenge that they follow. The journalist who was with Snoop explained that if someone is bad to you, you must be bad to them in return, or they will think you are a pussy.

#14

The tenets of Pashtunwali are extremely complex and are constantly changing. They are rooted in the belief that honor and respect must be demonstrated through strength and courage.

#15

Pat Tillman was a player who was extremely competitive, and he took his football very seriously. He was also extremely sensitive, and he often got upset when people laughed at him. He was a traditionalist who passed down traditional masculine values to his sons.

#16

On April 12, 2007, the U. S. Army captain Dennis Knowles sent an email to this author from FOB Tillman in which he reported, Today was a very sad day as Snoop took the brunt of a mine and didn’t make it. He was well respected by all sides.

#17

In the aftermath of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, there was anticipation within the Afghan diaspora that their nation was on the cusp of a new era of peace and renewal. But instead, the country slid deeper into anarchy and fratricidal violence.

#18

The mujahideen’s attempt to take over Jalalabad in 1989 was a failure, and they were forced to retreat. In 1990, bin Laden left Afghanistan and returned to Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, thousands of Arab jihadis flocked to the conflict.

#19

As the Soviet Union began to crumble in 1991, the mujahideen warlords began jockeying for position to take over Kabul, the capital of Najibullah’s government. In early 1992, an important commander of the DRA Army regiment named Abdul Rashid Dostum turned on his communist benefactors.

#20

After making these observations, which would soon turn out to be disturbingly prescient, Najibullah offered to step down as president. His government disintegrated on the spot, and Kabul was left undefended. Mujahideen factions moved on the city from all points of the compass.

#21

In Kabul, the old mujahideen leaders realigned themselves in bizarre temporary partnerships. They fought artillery duels along Kabul’s avenues, dividing the city into a dense barricaded checkerboard of ethnic and ideological factions.

#22

The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center came very close to succeeding. The bomb was assembled by a Kuwaiti named Ramzi Yousef, under the supervision of his uncle Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who would later be identified as the principal architect of the attack against the same buildings on September 11, 2001.

#23

Tillman was a star football player in high school, and he was also a weight lifter who developed massive legs and an upper body sculpted by the activity. He was an exceptional player even before the spurt.

#24

Pat Tillman was a strikingly good-looking young man, with chiseled features and a magnetic smile. His eyes were his most striking feature: greenish brown and angular, they were framed between high cheekbones and a dark, forceful brow.

#25

Pat and Marie’s story is one of opposites attracting. Marie was a very smart, good girl, while Pat was loud and mischievous. They shared the same group of friends, however, and things evolved from there.

#26

Pat’s relationship with Marie was a stabilizing force in his life. She was a civilizing influence who helped knock off some of his sharper edges. However, he got in trouble shortly after they started dating.

#27

On November 13, 1993, a week after Pat’s seventeenth birthday, he went to a restaurant with his friends. He was drunk, and began taunting a friend of his who had dated his ex-girlfriend. His friends were all sober.

#28

Pat was extremely close to Hechtle, and when he saw him getting beaten up, he made a beeline for the biggest attacker, which happened to be Darin Rosas.

#29

When Pat went to hit Rosas, Rosas was just a spectator who had nothing to do with the fight. But Pat’s teenage brain didn’t know that, and he went berserk. When he tried to stop Pat, one of Pat’s friends grabbed Clarke and held her back.

#30

Pat Tillman, who was watching the fight, immediately recognized that he had done serious harm to Rosas. He told the police that he was sorry and explained that he’d thought Darin was hurting his friend.

#31

After Leland won the CCS championship in December 1993, Pat was voted one of two CCS players of the year. This honor seemed to ensure that he would be offered a scholarship to play college football at one of the nation’s premier Division I-A programs.

#32