iraq war, 2003-2011

Explores the risks the United States, Britain, and their coalition partners took in invading Iraq in March 2003 and discusses how their actions have impacted the United Nations and their relations with other countries.

When a young girl disappears near a community in the Adirondacks, the people of the town of Carthage must face the fact that an Iraq War veteran is the prime suspect.

The account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendships, their personal lives, and their families.

Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, President Obama stood in Arlington National Cemetery to deliver his Memorial Day address. He extolled the heroism and sacrifice of the two men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, these two former roommates and best friends were now buried together--"brothers forever." Award-winning journalist Tom Sileo and Travis's father, Colonel Tom Manion, USMCR (Ret.), tell the intimate and personal story of how these Naval Academy roommates defined a generation's sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Explores the extraordinary, enduring commitment among U.S. soldiers to leave no one behind. On the morning of January 20, 1944, Major Marion "Ryan" McCown Jr., a Marine Corps pilot, took off on a dangerous mission against the Japanese stronghold at Rabaul. His plane went down that day and was lost in the dense jungle of Papua New Guinea. Fast forward sixty years later as Major George Eyster V found himself in the same sweltering, impenetrable rain forest searching for MIA's. That's not all he would find there.

After a career as a Navy SEAL, Mike Ritland went on to train working K9's for some of the most elite units in the U.S. Special Operations community.

The author lost her husband in an Apache army helicopter crash in Iraq twenty years after her own mother was widowed due to a plane crash which Artis survived but her father did not. She manages to overcome two generations of tragedy to go on with her life at the age of twenty-six.

Discusses the Iraq War with a detailed look at ninety-seven documents.

Argues that President Obama has expanded the base of presidential power through the use of drone warfare, targeted assassinations, and other tactics.