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The Lone Survivor story is pure propaganda and mostly inaccurate. You can easily look this up. That entire operation was a F up from the beginning, and had noth
by crikeykangaroo 1y ago
The Lone Survivor story is pure propaganda and mostly inaccurate. You can easily look this up. That entire operation was a F up from the beginning, and had nothing to do with being discovered early.
It created proper propaganda fuel though, so mission partially accomplished I suppose.
- verisimi 1y agoUnless you were there, there is no reason to think any of the stories (good or bad) are anything other than propaganda.
- PUSH_AX 1y agoThe US navy literally wrote the book, and gave it to Luttrell. This has recently come to light. Now if that’s not propaganda then I don’t know what is.
- Balgair 1y agoI'm not trying to be a jerk here, but source? Genuinely curious.
- CapricornNoble 1y agoI don't have a link handy, but I recall seeing on YT a clip of Luttrell basically outright stating that the Navy "handed him the book pre-written" in an interview.
- jki275 1y agoLuttrell didn't have anything to do with it. The writer is a British fiction writer. He did a one hour interview with Lutrell, that's the entire involvement Luttrell had with it.
- RandomBacon 1y agoThat sucks if true, although I don't expect everyone military special forcers operator to also be a great author on top of their other amazing skills, I expect it to be somewhat ghost written, but one hour? Perhaps the ghostwriter used other interviews and had access to other reports?
- jki275 1y agoOh I'm sure he read about it somewhere. But the book is simply fiction. Most of the story as Luttrell tells it to this day is false, but the book is even worse. The link I posted earlier tells the real story.