epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Joshua Key

6 al-Habbaniyah NEAR THE BEGINNING OF AUGUST 2003, THE 43RD combat Engineer Company left Ramadi and moved about ten miles east to al-Habbaniyah. It was a small, dusty town of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Hampton, Dan [Hampton, Dan]

Photo Section Undergraduate Pilot Training graduation, 1987. Welcome to the USAF. TopGun clipping. All fighter wings have these competitions, and this was my first win. Germany, 1990. Every bachelor fighter ...

mobi |eng | 2006-09-01 | Author:Nathaniel Fick

22 EIGHT MILES FROM the Iraqi border, I learned about the start of the war from the BBC. Tomahawks and stealth fighters kicked it off a day early in an ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Nathaniel Fick

22 EIGHT MILES FROM the Iraqi border, I learned about the start of the war from the BBC. Tomahawks and stealth fighters kicked it off a day early in an ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Brian Castner

I’m sitting with Jimbo in another faceless airport, before dawn, drinking another cup of black coffee, waiting for another flight to I-can’t-remember. Texas? North Carolina? It all blends together. If ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:John C. McManus

See the Hill, Take the Hill: The Horror of 875 The tension was palpable, jolting, like an electrical current. Here and there, morning fog hung in the valleys. For three ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-16 | Author:Evan Wright

SEVENTEEN ° SUNSET ON THE NIGHT of March 27 turns the surrounding fields red. First Recon’s camp by the airfield is spread across three kilometers, with the Humvees on the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jim Frederick

Sergeant First Class Blaisdell was at Yusufiyah trying to get a mission under way. A few days earlier, they had caught some suspicious types driving around and found several weapons ...

mobi |eng | 2003-07-28 | Author:Sheldon Rampton; John Stauber

Arnold Gets a Hummer Politicians and terrorists are not the only propagandists who use fear to drive human behavior in irrational directions. A striking recent use of fear psychology in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-02 | Author:Jay Kopelman

CHAPTER NINETEEN February 2005 Baghdad ANNE’S DAYS IN Baghdad start early. Until 5 AM, Lava snuggles up next to her in bed and snores, but at 5 AM sharp the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-30 | Author:Scahill, Jeremy [Scahill, Jeremy]

The story became even more complicated in July 2006, when the Secretary of the Army, Francis Harvey, wrote a letter to Republican Congressman Christopher Shays of the House Committee on ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Richard Bonin

FIFTEEN Chalabi was on a roll. His march through Washington, however, was not without its share of difficulties and detours. For one, he was hurting financially. The attempt by Dewey ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-18 | Author:Michael Anthony

“HEY. If you want to hear the story, pay attention.” I hear Denti say, taking me out of my daze. “Oh shit, Anthony, you never listen — the point is ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:David Cloud; Greg Jaffe

CHAPTER NINE All Glory Is Fleeting Al Faw Palace, Camp Victory July 1, 2004 Okay, who’s my counterinsurgency expert?” asked General George Casey, sounding impatient. It was his first day ...

mobi |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Benjamin Busch

My wife and I flew to London in 2001 for a New Year’s vacation. We went down onto the shore of the Thames River where I was told not to ...