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Rod lurie to direct adaption of jake tappers the outpost. Based on cnn news correspondent jake tappers bestselling book, the outpost tells the epic true story of the 50 soldiers who battled a force of over 400 taliban in northeastern afghanistan during operation enduring freedom. As the white house correspondent for abc news, jake tapper covered the war in afghanistan from what he calls. Below is an excerpt from abc news senior white house correspondent jake tappers justreleased, the outpost. They hear us thanks to jake the outpost in stores now.

Jan 12, 20 the outpost an untold story of american valor by jake tapper. Dec 27, 2012 jake tapper, former senior white house correspondent with abc news, will begin his new job as anchor and chief washington correspondent for cnn in 20. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Someone, somewhere, came up with the moronic idea of putting a post in a location so remote, so inaccessible, and so dangerous that many, many soldiers lost their lives, unnecessarily, the author shows. Unfortunately, the author spends of the book on backstory we get it, the cop was in a shitty location. This web site, myself included, has been frequently unkind and occasionally unfair to abc news white house correspondent jake tapper over the years. An untold story of american valor paperback october 22, 20. Kurt schlichter, the seminal work of documentary journalism to emerge out of the post911 war in afghanistan.

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