afghan war, 2001-

Examines the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden, details the selection and training process for one of the most elite units in the military, and describes previously unreported missions that illustrate the life and work of a SEAL and the evolution of the team after the events of September 11.

The author, a Navy SEAL, returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from America's founding to today, had been willing to sacrifice everything, including themselves, for the sake of family, nation, and freedom. In this book, we follow the author to Iraq, where he returns to the battlefield as a member of SEAL Team 5 to help take on the most dangerous city in the world, Ramadi, the capital of war-torn Al Anbar Province. There, in six months of high-intensity urban combat, he would be part of what has been called the greatest victory in the history of U.S. Special Operations forces.

Presents a biographical discussion of Pat Tillman, covering the true events and actions surrounding the death of the U.S. Army soldier by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004, and examines the misrepresentation of his story by the Bush administration before the truth was revealed.

On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy Seals left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Queda leader. Less than twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALS remained alive. Marcus Luttrell is the sole survivor of Operation Redwing, the desperate battle in the mountains that led to the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history. Luttrell was blasted unconscious by a rocket grenade, blown over a cliff, but still armed and breathing. Over the next four days, badly injured and presumed dead, he fought off six al Qaeda assassins who were sent to finish him off, then crawled for seven miles through the mountains before he was taken in by a Pashtun tribe who risked everything to protect him from the encircling Taliban killers.

Navy SEAL Mike Ritland discusses how he started his own company to train working and protection dogs, and shares the inside story of the elite K9 warriors.

David Kilcullen, an expert on guerrilla warfare, explains how military strategies changed in the post-9/11 era, with most conflicts now becoming a hybrid of contrasting trends that blur the distinction between local and global struggles.

Collects blog entries by more than forty American soldiers, written while serving in Afghanistan or Iraq or after returning home, and includes pieces by significant others and family members.

Moazzam Begg, a British Muslim, tells about the years he was held at Guantanamo Bay by the United States government, detailing his arrest, interrogations, solitary confinement, and other incidents that occurred during his imprisonment.

Describes the experience of the war in Afghanistan through the correspondence of two young people.