Radio War Nerd EP71—Adrian Bonenberger, Afghanistan War vet & writer

Guest: Adrian Bonenberger, Army vet , journalist , author The War Nerd interviews Afghanistan War veteran, author and blogger Adrian Bonenberger about his experiences in the military and in war, and the contrast from life in Ivy League academia...Adrian also tells us his picks for best (and worst) recent war books and films... In World of Wars: Flynn is a moron; Nusra/alt-Qaeda undergoes another rebranding; and we dissect neocon hack Roy Gutman's smear piece against Kurdish leftists, published in The Nation by looking at Gutman's work with Michael Weiss in the Daily Beast, his stint in a spooky Reagan-era organization...We also look back at Amnesty International's "blunders" that helped justify first Gulf War, bombing of Libya ...