The Fifth ActBy: Elliot Ackerman The American betrayal of Afghanistan took twenty years. Elliot Ackerman, a participant and witness, tells the story with unsparing honesty in this intensely personal chronicle. George Packer A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the wars echoing legacy Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the