Afghanistan, 2011. A Force Recon platoon holds contested ground in a valley where everything — terrain, time, information — has to be fought for. Their platoon commander is twenty-something years old and responsible for all of it.

High Ground is the story of that deployment, told by the man who led it: the planning and the chaos, the brotherhood and the cost — including the day a team was overrun and three Marines were killed in action. It's also the story of what came after: a transition to corporate America, where Kevin discovered the battles change but the leadership doesn't.

Part memoir, part field manual for anyone responsible for other people, High Ground refuses the easy version of both war stories and business books. The lessons in it were not learned in a classroom. They were earned.