The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 seen through the eyes of ordinary infantrymen of the U.S. Army. At the center of the narrative is the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, United States Marine Corps. To Camp Matilda, Kuwait, arrives journalist Evan Wright, portrayed by his old acquaintance Lee Tergesen, who will accompany the troops on their advance toward the capital—the city of Baghdad. Two months of war, unembellished.