Rob Schultheis is an

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and

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who lives in

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. He has written books about the wars in

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

(both with the

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, and the war in 2002) and the 2003 Iraq War, as well as books about Colorado, the Western United States, and extreme sports such as mountain climbing. He has also written articles for magazines such as ''Time'', and newspapers such as ''

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'' and ''

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''. He also wrote for Alta Journal in december 2022

Book reviews

In 1982, his book ''The Hidden West: Journey in the American Outback'' was published. It was described by a ''New York Times'' review as "A celebration of that vast expanse of remaining American frontier." In 1992, Schultheis' book ''Night Letters: Inside Wartime Afghanistan'', was published, on the topic of the

Soviet–Afghan War The Soviet–Afghan War took place in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989. Marking the beginning of the 46-year-long Afghan conflict, it saw the Soviet Union and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic o ...

, which he covered in person as a journalist. A Library Journal review states "His descriptions of the many individuals and their savage landscape are unforgettable, and his tales of the desperate yet eager combat by a remarkably resilient people give some of the most vivid images of that war available to us in the West." A review in Publishers Weekly states, "In this chronicle of high adventure Schultheis succeeds in conveying his exhilaration to the reader." ''Waging Peace: A Special Operations Team's Battle to Rebuild Iraq'' (2005), was written after Schultheis spent six months in 2004 as an

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with a US Army Civil Affairs team who was tasked with working on rebuilding operations in a Shi'ite neighborhood in Baghdad, during the

Iraq War The Iraq War (), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with 2003 invasion of Iraq, the invasion by a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition, which ...

. One review calls the book "amusing as well as surprising", and goes on to say, "there's valuable information here about the unsung heroes who do the dirty work required to help push Iraqis toward a better life and democracy." In ''Hunting Bin Laden: How al-Qaeda Is Winning the War on Terror'' (2008), Schultheis questions the military tactics in the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan. One review calls it "one of the rawest accounts of Afghanistan's suffering to emerge from a growing library documenting the country's misery."

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Review of Schultheis' book ''The Hidden West''
'' The Boston Phoenix'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Schultheis, Rob Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American non-fiction writers Journalists from Colorado People from Telluride, Colorado