Iraq War

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Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent Into Madness In Iraq’s Triangle Of Death

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The Human Cost of War in Iraq Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death by Jim Frederick examines the experiences of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division during the Iraq War. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews, firsthand reporting, […]

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Team of Teams – New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

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Team of Teams, written by retired Army General Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell. General McChrystal calls on his experience commanding special operations forces in Iraq to challenge the status quo of centralized command and control. When General McChrystal took command […]

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The Unseen War – Allied Air Power and the takedown of Saddam Hussein

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The Unseen War offers a comprehensive assessment of the air contribution to the three weeks of major combat that ended the rule of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein in 2003. In contrast to Operation DESERT STORM in 1991, the role of allied air power in the Nation’s […]

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House To House

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One of the great heroes of the Iraq War, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia captures the brutal action and raw intensity of leading his Third Platoon, Alpha Company, into the lethally choreographed kill zone of booby-trapped, explosive-laden houses of Fallujah’s militant insurgents. Bringing to searing life […]

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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War

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From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought […]