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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
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