TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue: Good Hunting: The Iron Fist of Fallujah
PART 1: The War on Terror: ISIS Rising
Chapter 1: Awakening the Eagles
Chapter 2: Through the Eyes of a JTAC
Chapter 3: A Stage Set in Syria
Chapter 4: As Vultures Nest
Chapter 5: An Enemy Apart
PART 2: The Iraq Crisis
Chapter 6: Defending Baghdad
Chapter 7: The Crisis Response Force
Chapter 8: The Ground Truth
Chapter 9: Quick-Look Teams
Chapter 10: Dangerous Rules of Engagement
Chapter 11: Eyewitness to a Massacre
PART 3: The First Strikes on ISIS
Chapter 12: A Mission Unknown
Chapter 13: Herding Cats
Chapter 14: The Abisellan Line
Chapter 15: A New War’s Fog
Chapter 16: Is This Any Way to Run a War?
PART 4: The Campaign Expands
Chapter 17: The True Enemy
Chapter 18: Relief of Sinjar Mountain
Chapter 19: Uniting Iraqis and Kurds
Chapter 20: Re-taking Mosul Dam
PART 5: Unbalancing ISIS
Chapter 21: Anticipating ISIS
Chapter 22: Liberating Amerli
Chapter 23: The Battle for Haditha Dam
Chapter 24: Rebirth of the Iraqi Air Force
Chapter 25: Virtual Mutiny
Chapter 26: ISIS on a Silver Platter
Chapter 27: The BIAP Strike Cell
PART 6: Unleashing the Dogs of War
Chapter 28: Keeping the Iraqis on the Offensive
Chapter 29: The First Strikes in Baghdad
Chapter 30: The Foggiest of Wars
Chapter 31: The Braveheart of Bayji
Chapter 32: A Relentless Enemy
Chapter 33: Caged Dogs
Chapter 34: The Bayji Oil Refinery
Chapter 35: Sharp Shooters
Chapter 36: Vampire Village
Chapter 37: Shock and Awe: First Strikes in Syria
Chapter 38: A Visit from Senator John McCain
PART 7: Chaos into Syria
Chapter 39: A Proxy War
Chapter 40: Politics on the Front Lines
Chapter 41: Enter the Russians
Chapter 42: Russia and Turkey: The Bear and the Wolf
PART 8: State of the Hunt and the Way Forward
Chapter 43: The Fate of Iraq
Chapter 44: Entangled in Syria
Chapter 45: ISIS-K and the Resurgence of the Taliban
Chapter 46: Our Country
Chapter 47: After the Caliphate