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The Secret History of Operation Red Wings | Ross Schneiderman | Ep. 460
Ross Schneiderman spent his career as a reporter and editor. Newsweek, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, ESPN. He covered mixed martial arts, then ran a foreign desk working alongside Afghan and Pakistani correspondents. In 2016 he wrote a Newsweek cover story about Mohammad Gulab, the Afghan villager who sheltered Marcus Luttrell. He never went to Afghanistan. He never covered a war. He spent six years piecing this one together anyway.
For twenty years, Operation Red Wings has been told one way. Lone Survivor turned it into a legend.
He FOIA'd the documents. He read the MERC chat…
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