A note on security: a number of the military figures who have read this book during draft stages have commented on the fact that the local Afghans who assisted Allied special forces in this war and are described herein as doing such may be open to reprisals by al-Qaeda and Taliban elements. For the record, the identities of those local Afghans portrayed as doing so in this book have been changed, as have the names of the locations where such events took place. That caveat aside, the events themselves are described completely accurately and entirely as they took place on the ground.