Washington Post reporter David Finkel, author of The Good Soldiers, discusses his year-long embedded Iraq War reporting in 2007 with Army infantry battalion 2-16, his book’s reliance on first-hand accounts and unclassified information, how the WikiLeaks ‘Collateral Murder’ video missed the big picture and why the ground-level view of war bears little resemblance to the one imagined in Washington strategy sessions.
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