Table of Contents
Preface
Glossary of Acronyms
Prologue: Pakistan—November 2001
PART ONE — HEADQUARTERS
Chapter 1: Outrage
Chapter 2: Plenty of Parking
Chapter 3: Roots
Chapter 4: A Day Late
Chapter 5: A Threshold Crossed, A Spark Ignited
Chapter 6: Mission Over Process
Chapter 7: Change Comes Hard
Chapter 8: “Pasha”
Chapter 9: Suspicious Minds
Chapter 10: New Mission
Chapter 11: Pakistan on My Mind
Chapter 12: Saying Goodbye
PART TWO — PAKISTAN
Chapter 13: Islamabad
Chapter 14: Karzai
Chapter 15: A Full Up Team
Chapter 16: A Devoted Man
Chapter 17: Off Again, On Again
Chapter 18: New Team, New Mission
Chapter 19: A Question of Leadership
Chapter 20: By the Seat of Our Pants
PART THREE — AFGHANISTAN
Chapter 21: There Be Snakes
Chapter 22: Infiltration
Chapter 23: Reflections on Leadership
Chapter 24: The Best Laid Plans
Chapter 25: Wagons, Ho!
Chapter 26: The Longest Night
Chapter 27: The Longest Day
Chapter 28: Bad News
Chapter 29: Takhteh-Pol Days
Chapter 30: Lightning Strikes—Twice
Chapter 31: Friendly Fire
Chapter 32: Kandahar
Chapter 33: Paying the Freight
Chapter 34: Link-up with Echo Team
Chapter 35: Raids, Rubble, Rocks, and Lingerie
Chapter 36: Tensions Among the Tribe
Chapter 37: Death from Above
Chapter 38: Do I Go or Do I Stay
Chapter 39: Jacobabad Revisited
Chapter 40: Home
Epilogue
Postscript 2017
Acknowledgments
Map: Afghanistan frontis opposite Chapter
Map: Team Foxtrot: Area of Operations
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