The operators is a book that details the authors travels with general stanley mcchrystal and his team in april 2010 it includes extensive quotations from over 20 hours of audio recordings of mcchrystal and his inner circle. The operators was simply a journalists look as an outsider into the workings of the military worse the author the recently deceased michael hastings contradicted himself repeated throughout the story trying to play the selfless journalist looking out for americas best interest. In the operators hastings picks up where his rolling stone coup ended from patrol missions in the afghan hinterlands to senior military advisors late night bull sessions to hotel bars where spies and expensive hookers participate in nation building hastings presents a shocking behind the scenes portrait of what he fears is an unwinnable war. The operators by michael hastings review from the reporter who brought down mcchrystal a provocative new book about afghanistan the media and the us military. Music film tv and political news coverage