One Hundred Victories : Special Ops and the Future of American Warfare /

"Based on unique inside access, the author of the New York Times bestseller Masters of Chaos explains how special operations forces are reshaping the U.S. military In One Hundred Victories, acclaimed military expert Linda Robinson shows how the special operations forces are-after a decade of in...

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Main Author: Robinson, Linda, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : PublicAffairs, 2013
Edition:First edition.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; Cast of Characters; Introduction; You'll Have to Kill a Lot of Men Like my Father
  • Missed Opportunities; 1. Hitting Targets; On the Hunt; Reeder's Epiphany; 2. Into the Villages; The Battle for Buy-In; Miller's New Idea; From Black Ops to Village Ops; 3. The Taliban's Home; Who Will Go With Me?
  • Maiwand; Summer of Assassinations; 4. Paktika; Chamtu; Catastrophic Success; To Pirkowti Again; 5. On the Border; Oda 3316; FIghting Uphill; Operation Sayaqa; 6. The Burdens of Command; Who Is Going to Take the Blame?
  • Growing Pains; 7. On the Same Team. . . Or Not.
  • Hugger and SluggerWe're Not Going South, Are We?
  • 8. SEALS do Foreign Interneal Defense, Too; SEALS Take Charge; Commandos Raise the Bar; The Fallen; 9. Good Enough?; West Paktika; Aziz Leads; 10. Highway One; Uprising; Expulsion; 11. Will the Valley Hold?; A Band of Brothers; The Last Team; 12. The Endgame; Unity of Command at Last; Whither Local Police?; Afghan Special Ops to the Fore; 13. The Future of Special Operations and American Warfare; Author's Note; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.