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Article: Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2006
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Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda. By Scan Naylor. New York: Berkley Books, 2005. 425 pages. $25.95. Reviewed by Colonel Gregory Fontenot, USA Ret., former Commander of the Battle Command Training Program.
There are very few correspondents working today who can be legitimately described as military correspondents. There are some who claim to be war correspondents, but that title only requires a journalist to have reported on a war. Some, but not all, of this number even feel they should actually report from the scene. More disturbing, few journalists take the trouble to learn anything about the military; thus when they report they tend ...