"Scott Wallace takes us along on his harrowing journey into the Central American jungles for an important historical accounting that draws a sharp line from the U.S. proxy wars of the 1980s to today's crises in those countries and at our own southern border."
—Deborah Nelson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Professor of Investigative Reporting at the University of Maryland

"Scott Wallace intensively documented the U.S.-supported wars that wracked Central America during the 1980s, and he deftly links them to the American "war on terror" after 9/11. Writing with great lucidity and grace, Wallace also illustrates Central America in the Crosshairs of War with his stunning photographs. A very compelling read."
—Peter Bergen, Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University, National Security Analysist for CNN, and author of The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden and The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda

"For anyone seeking to comprehend how the United States lurched heedlessly from its disastrous war in Vietnam on to those in Iraq and Afghanistan, Central America in the Crosshairs of War is a must-read. One of the most intrepid and clear-eyed reporters to have covered the wars in Central America of the 1980s, Scott Wallace has produced an essential book, in words and pictures, offering an invaluable historical perspective."
—Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of The Fall of Baghdad and Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year

"Scott Wallace's book is fantastic. Vivid, immediate, gripping, and frequently hair-raising, his grounds-eye account of the cruel wars that the U.S has inflicted and enabled on hapless victims far and near evokes history as it happened. Wallace's reporting, intensely detailed and personal, memorializes people and the world in which they lived and died in a way no reader can ever forget."
—Andrew Cockburn, Washington Editor of Harper's Magazine and author of The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine and Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins

A mixed patrol of forces from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division and the Army of Afghanistan marches toward a village near the border of Pakistan in the early morning, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, 2003.