American Heroes by North, Oliver -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1: The Jihad

Wake-up Call Who Is the Enemy? Oil Fuels the Jihad The "Lands of the Prophet" We Don't Get It What Do They Want? Why Do They Hate Us?

2: Counter-Attack

Fighting Back A New Kind of War The First American Casualty The Marines Enter the Fray Into the Hindu Kush Karzai's Courage

3:Expanding the War

The Case Against Saddam Preparation for Preemption WMD: The Casus Belli Preparing for the Road to Baghdad Embedded-Finally Good to Go

4: Hostilities Have Commenced

Into the Fight Helicopter Down! Cas-Evac!

5: To the Banks of the Euphrates

An Nasiriyah, the Bloody Gauntlet With HMM-268 & RCT-5

6: Mother of All Sandstorms 7: To the Gates of Baghdad

They All Fall Down Quagmire Make Ready to Move Out Drive North Across the Tigris Press on to the Capital

8: Into Baghdad and Beyond

The "Thunder Runs"

9: Liberation Loses its Luster

Tikrit, Iraq Bayji, Iraq Missteps and the Rise of the Insurgency Dying to Kill Us

10: Bloody Anbar

"The Most Violent Place on the Planet" Battlefield Innovation "No Greater Friend, No Worse Enemy" No Good News? Hearts and Minds The Fight for Fullujah

11: Will Democrazy Work?

The Election in Afghanistan Iraqi Vote I: National Assembly Election Iraq Vote II: The Constitutional Referendum Iraq Vote III: The New Government

12: Turnaround

Closing the Terror Pipeline Ramadi: IED Central The Awakening

13: Hero Values

Courage Commitment Compassion Faith

14: Wounded Warriors

Sgt Luke Cassidy Sgt Gregory Edwards 2nd Lt. Andrew Kinard LCpl Aaron Mankin The Bottom Line

15: The "Other Heroes"

When Dad Is at War Keeping It Together at Home and at War E-mail Cuts the Time but Can't Close the Distance

16: Getting It Done!

How Iraq Has Changed Why Don't We Hear More of This Kind of News? How They Did It Can It All Still Go Wrong? Where We Could Do Better

17: Dispatches From A Forgotten War Index Glossary Image Credits Freedom Alliance