epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Matt Farwell & Michael Ames

SIXTEEN BOB’S WAR Bob and Jani’s lives were now fully intertwined with the U.S. government’s fiasco in Afghanistan, their son’s fate to be determined by the same convoluted calculus that ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:David Axe & Matt Bors [Axe, David & Bors, Matt]

Ted Rall is a cartoonist, columnist, and author of To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue, and Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East? PROLOGUE IRAQ ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:John Nixon

8. Death to Shiites and Zionists ---------- During the second week of our debriefing we began to discuss regional politics, and although Saddam tried to take the high road and ...

azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Helen Thorpe

As long as she remained in Afghanistan, she could sustain this state of irresolution, where she never had to confront the truth of what she was doing. She could see ...

epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Irving

SIX WITHOUT REMORSE “IRV! LET GO of your junk, man. You’re out in public!” The rest of the forty-man 1st Platoon who heard Ramirez’s successful attempt to punk me laughed. ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Travis Mills

Me goofing off with my big sister, Sarah. I was the jokester of the family, although Dad says I never knew when to quit. I hoped I’d have a career ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Moore, Brian [Moore, Brian]

CPT Fenton and SFC Moore at FOB Gilligan. Ft. Apache did manage to give us what few materials they could spare, like Constantina Wire (C-wire), sandbags and shovels. The wire ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-10 | Author:Shaffer, Anthony [Shaffer, Anthony]

13 THE “HEART OF DARKNESS” I’M a big fan of movies. One of my top ten favorites is Apocalypse Now, based on the novel by Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jason Redman John Bruning [Jason Redman John Bruning]

TOWARD THE END OF the month, as I grew nearer to the end of my time in Ranger Jail, I circled back to that day in the valley. It was ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Clement, Jeffrey

Poppy fields on the left (irrigated with several inches of water) and wheat fields on the right of this route limited the convoy’s mobility to a single route. Insurgents could ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-10 | Author:Brandon Webb & John David Mann & Marcus Luttrell [Webb, Brandon & Mann, John David & Luttrell, Marcus]

SEVEN WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED In the late summer of 2000 our platoon embarked on a trans-Pacific run, headed for the Persian Gulf by way of Hawaii, Australia, and points west. ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Sean Parnell

Fourteen Blood Brothers Chris Brown’s pistol cracked. Campbell’s rifle bucked. Wheat double-tapped another insurgent. Pilon’s SAW chattered. Sabatke ducked into his Humvee and snatched a pair of M18 Claymore mines. ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Kevin Sites [Sites, Kevin]

While his observations, like this one, are loaded with pessimism and despair, they are at the very least, according to mental health experts, an effort at sharing the burden of ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Frank Gallagher,John M. Del Vecchio

February 2004 As the time approached for the assembled American and Iraqi diplomats to write a constitution for the new Iraq, a thousand different forces pulled Ambassador Bremer in a ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-31 | Author:Dilip Joseph M.D.

CHAPTER ELEVEN A PRECARIOUS PEACE 6:00 A.M., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 THE DIM LIGHT OF DAWN HAD JUST BEGUN TO STEAL THROUGH the cracks in the two ventilation openings and doorway ...