Shadow Wars, Special Operations, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves In lieu of Victory

Phil Klay is a Marine Corps veteran and the author of Redeployment, which won the National Book Award in 2014. A graduate of Hunter College’s MFA program, his essays and journalism have also appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the Brookings Institution’s “Brookings Essay” series, and others.