iraq war, 2003-

A collection of primary documents on America's War on Terrorism, focusing on the United States' altered concept of pre-emption and how this impacted events in the early twenty-first century, and also covers the ideological path to war, the nature of insurgency, oil policy, torture, and more.

Tells the story of Bryan Buckley and Colby Umbrell, captains of rival high school football teams in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, who enlisted in the military after graduation and were sent to fight in the Middle East--Colby as an Army Ranger and Bryan as a Marine, and discusses how their families and the entire town were affected when only one of them survived.

Firsthand accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from decorated soldiers of all branches of the military capture front-line stories of combat, courage under fire, and heroism on the battlefield.