epub |eng | 2010-08-25 | Author:Stephen Grey

The Desert East of Now Zad, at 1,000 Feet, 1615 Hours Twenty-one helicopters were circling over the desert. Their cargo of paratroopers was already supposed to be on the ground, ...

mobi |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Mitchell, Greg [Mitchell, Greg]

Murtha Speaks Out November 17, 2005 A few days ago, newspaper editorial pages were merely trailing their readers in calling for change in direction in Iraq. Now they are even ...

mobi |eng | 2013-01-13 | Author:Thomas E. Ricks

THE BATTLE OF TARMIYAH As the new American outposts proliferated, they did appear to draw some of al Qaeda’s firepower away from civilians. The more remote stations were especially enticing. ...

mobi |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Scahill, Jeremy [Scahill, Jeremy]

“Whores of War” Regardless of the controversy that later erupted over the various contractual relationships, the original contract between Blackwater/Regency and ESS, signed March 8, 2004, called for “a minimum ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-02-06 | Author:Kinzer, Stephen [Kinzer, Stephen]

9 A Graveyard Smell A CIA officer who called himself Abe was one of the first people David Atlee Phillips met after he reported for duty at Langley, Virginia, in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-04 | Author:Robinson, Linda [Robinson, Linda]

CHAPTER 9 WESTERN IRAQ The Battle of the War Pigs What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy. —SUN TZU ON MARCH 19, as soon ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-10 | Author:Donovan Campbell [Campbell, Donovan]

For Joker One, though, the events of April 6 began well before we launched into the city to relieve third platoon. In fact, for us April 6 began precisely at ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Robert M Gates [Robert M Gates]

MY NEW AGENDA AT DEFENSE By 2009, I had come to believe that the paradigms of both conventional and unconventional war weren’t adequate anymore, as the most likely future conflicts ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Keegan

6 The American War History repeats itself, though no two historians agree quite how. Those who reported the First Gulf War of 1990–91 had an almost eerie impression of events ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lambeth, Benjamin S. [Lambeth, Benjamin S.]

President George W. Bush flanked by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz at the Pentagon on March 25, 2003, as he announces a $74.7 ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Nir Rosen [Rosen, Nir]

Though Gentile was skeptical that COIN was a cure-all, he knew that he could not kill his way out of the problems he was facing in the district either, so ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:James Loney [Loney, James]

JANUARY 20 DAY 56 The voices—loud, excited, running into each other—move to the bottom of the stairway. It sounds like a party. The voices subside. Footsteps in the foyer. Junior ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Jeremiah Workman & John Bruning [Workman, Jeremiah & Bruning, John]

Big hair and all, they got that one right. I light the smoke and take a deep breath. It’s after ten and I’ll need to take my meds soon. That’ll ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gray, Wesley R. [Gray, Wesley R.]

Insurgent Snipers Attack After three hours of dreamless sleep, I awoke to the sound of roaring generator engines and the sight of an Iraqi civilian snooping outside the building. Instinctively ...

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 ...