12 Strong [2018]

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The movie is about, Following the September 11 attacks, Captain Mitch Nelson leads a US Special Forces team into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission.

Once there, the soldiers develop an uneasy partnership with the Northern Alliance to take down the Taliban and its al-Qaida allies.

Outgunned and outnumbered, Nelson and his forces face overwhelming odds in a fight against a ruthless enemy that takes no prisoners.

The movie begins when Mitch Nelson, a U.S. Army captain with Green Berets operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) is moving into a new home with his wife and daughter on September 11, 2001.

After receiving an assignment to staff duty under Lieutenant Colonel Bowers. As news of the devastating terrorist attacks that day breaks, he volunteers to lead 595 into Afghanistan.

He initially refuses, but veteran soldier CW5 Hal Spencer, previously scheduled to retire, persuades Bowers to give him command of 595 again as well as volunteering himself for the deployment.

After leaving their families, 595 travels to Uzbekistan on October 7, 2001. After being briefed and evaluated by the Commander of 5th special forces Group, Nelson and 595 are picked to fight alongside the Northern Alliance leader.

ODA 595 is inserted covertly in Afghanistan aboard a Boeing CH-47 Chinook flown by 16th Soar on October 19, 2001.

They land 40 miles (64.37 km) south of Mazar-i-Sharif, the country's fourth-largest city and a longtime stronghold of the Taliban, where they meet Dostum.

Six of the 12 members, led by Nelson, leave with Dostum to the mountains, while the other six remain in a fortified camp nicknamed “The Alamo” under Spencer's command.

Dostum is attempting to capture the northern Afghanistan city while battling a Taliban leader who rules local communities brutally under the strict law of Sharia and has murdered several people, including Dostum's family.

Although the warlord is initially skeptical of Nelson's abilities, he gradually earns Dostum's respect.

In one battle, however, Dostum makes a tactical error, costing numerous casualties. Nelson accuses Dostum of acting carelessly with the lives of his men and of withholding valuable information.

While, Dostum retorts that he still feels that Nelson and the U.S. are not willing to pay the potential price of the conflict and tells him that he needs to use his heart and mind to “be a warrior” instead of a soldier.

The two eventually reconcile and, after splitting off a three-man element under SFC Sam Diller to strike a Taliban supply route and being joined by Spencer's half of ODA 595, continue to work together.

They won countless victories with Dostum's leadership and manpower and American airpower, making significant progress towards Mazar-i Sharif.

When he informs Dostum that another ODA, 555, has been dispatched to support another Northern Alliance leader who is Dostum's political rival, he is furious, and his men promptly abandon 595.

Following Dostum's departure, Nelson plans to continue operating against the Taliban with his Americans and the few Afghanistan fighters remaining with them.

Encountering a large force of Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters and armored vehicles, ODA 595, rejoined by Diller and his element, uses air support to eliminate many of the fighters and most of the armor but are discovered and attacked.

Find out what happened next on Netflix as they rejoined and get air support as the movie gets more fascinating.

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