Relentless Strike

CONTENTS

Copyright Notice

Author’s Note

Map of Afghanistan

Map of Afghanistan/Tora Bora/Pakistan

Maps of Iraq and Baghdad

Map of Horn of Africa

PART I—THE FERRARI IN THE GARAGE

1 A Phoenix Rises

2 JSOC Gets Its Feet Wet

3 Frustration in the Middle East

4 Payoff in Panama

5 Manhunts, Motorboats, and Mogadishu

6 Forging Bonds in the Balkans

7 Loose Nukes and Missed Opportunities

PART II—A NEW ERA DAWNS

8 “Fairly Ponderous and Enormously Heavy”

9 Risky Missions and Empty Targets

10 “Carte Blanche”

11 Precious Cargo

12 Rumsfeld Falls for JSOC

13 Bin Laden Slips Away

14 “Patton’s Three Principles of War”

PART III—BUILDING THE MACHINE

16 The Deck of Cards

17 Building a Network

18 “JSOC on Steroids”

20 Killing Zarqawi

21 A New Campaign Against an Old Enemy

PART IV—A GLOBAL CAMPAIGN

22 Close Target Reconnaissance in Syria

23 Back to Mogadishu

24 Victory in Mosul?

25 Rangers Step Up in Afghanistan

26 Hit and Miss in Pakistan

27 A Reckoning in Abbottabad

28 Successes, and a Failure

29 Extortion 17

30 Old Enemies, New Challenges

Acknowledgments

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