![]() ![]() ** At Harvard, Professor Susan Lowell has just won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for her account of the insurgent campaign directed by a mysterious Somali warlord. The action in An Expensive Education shifts back and forth from the border of Somalia and Kenya, where Somali bandits and terrorists are active, to the campus of Harvard University. ![]() And in Nick McDonell’s well-received novel of a decade ago, An Expensive Education, what Special Forces operators and the CIA are up to is no good. But it’s safe to say that most Americans would be uncomfortable knowing what they’re up to. What are are these troops doing? Where? And why? The answers to these questions are known only within the uppermost reaches of the Pentagon, the intelligence establishment, and the White House. ![]() Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, and other, less-well-known units, operating in small groups on top-secret missions, are involved in what has been called-romantically, ungrammatically, and probably misleadingly-the “War on Terror.” Somewhere in the world, and probably in a dozen countries or more throughout the Global South, American Special Forces operators are engaged in action. ![]()
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