counterinsurgency

Benjamin Tupper, a captain in the Army National Guard, tells the story of his time in Afghanistan with the Embedded Training Teams and how, without much knowledge of Afghanistan culture or language, Tupper and his teams set out to train the newly formed Afghan National Army.

Presents the true story of the January 2007 surge into Iraq and President Bush's order to increase the number of American troops in order to provide security to Baghdad and Al Anbar Province.

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.

Reports the battle at Combat Outpost Keating, an American outpost hidden in the mountains of Afghanistan.

Explores the dynamics of the Iraq War during its first three years; examines the counterinsurgency doctrine developed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and visits the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as the streets of Baghad where soldiers worked to implement the surge.

A lieutenant's gripping, personal account of the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan--a vivid, action-packed, and highly emotional true story of enormous sacrifice and bravery.

In December 2009, a group of the CIA's top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan. They were meeting to greet Human Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent who had infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months he had passed on important information and now promised to lead operatives to Osama bin Laden. Instead, as he stepped from his car, he detonated a thiry-pound bomb strapped to his chest, instantly killing himself and seven CIA operatives, the agency's worst loss of life in decades.

Presents the inside story of a small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who determined to revolutionize the United States military and reshape twenty-first-century military policy.