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Raptor's communications expert, Staff Sergeant Brian "Hawk" Bledsoe, is struggling with his inner demons, leaving him on the verge of an "other than honorable" discharge. Plagued with corrupted intel, Raptor team continues to track down the terrorist playing chess with their lives. Afghan pilot Fekiria Haidary is devastated when a systems glitch on her aircraft forces a weapons launch on a safe target. And when the deadly bombing separates Hawk from the team, he must make an impossible choice: save his brothers-in-arms, or save the woman and children depending on him to survive a brutal snowstorm.

This book describes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including why they happened, who was involved, and the aftermath.

Terrorism is explored in the context of the UN's international peace and security policies.

Examines the economic and political issues facing Afghanistan today. It provides up-to-date information about the country’s geography and climate, history, government, politics, society, important cities and communities, and relations with other countries.

Ten stories of American heroes who risked their lives for their country while fighting in the Afghan War.

A history of the Soviet War in Afghanistan during the Cold War that includes three stories in graphic novel format about actual skirmishes in the war.

Two teens from different ethnic groups in present-day Afghanistan must fight their culture, tradition, families, and the Taliban to stay together as they and another village boy relate the story of their forbidden love.

A personal narrative of the war in Afghanistan and how it went dangerously wrong. Graeme Smith was a young reporter who, for several years, was the only Western journalist brave enough to live full-time in the perilous southern region. This account of modern warfare takes the reader into alleys, cockpits, and prisons. Smith was not simply embedded with the military. He operated independently and at great personal risk to report from inside the war. The heroes of his story are the translators, guides, and ordinary citizens who helped him find the truth and they provided the key to understanding why the West failed to deliver peace and democracy.

Ratcliffe once belonged to a group of highly trained soldiers but he left the military to pursue a career in Melbourne, Australia in alternative medicine. Years later, he returned to Afghanistan for a short assignment as a contractor. He planned to return to Australia in a few weeks. Five years later he finally made it home. The reality of the war in Afghanistan was danger in all areas--human trafficking, drug lords, corrupt officials, and dishonesty everywhere he turned. He tried to make a difference but was betrayed and wound up incarcerated in a medieval Afghan prison, awaiting the death penalty.

Former CIA station chief in Islamabad and director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center Robert Grenier describes events of the Afghan War.