Afghanistan – A Year in Pictures, Missions, & News with the Special Operations Command is a unique perspective on Afghanistan as depicted by John E. Hudson. He was active duty from 2010 to 2013 and selected to be in the Afghanistan Pakistan Hands Program, a Secretary of Defense/ Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff initiative that directly supported operations by US Forces – Afghanistan.  As part of his training, he learned various things like language, combat skills, and culture, and was deployed throughout the country with the Special Operations Command. The books comprises his year in Afghanistan with detailed pictures and emails/notes/articles of missions and events that took places in 2011/12