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Twilight warriors : the soldiers, spies, and special agents who are revolutionizing the American way of war / James Kitfield

By: Publisher: New York : Basic Books, [2016]Description: viii, 405 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780465064700 (hardcover)
  • 0465064701 (hardcover)
Other title:
  • Soldiers, spies, and special agents who are revolutionizing the American way of war
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 355/.033573 23
LOC classification:
  • UA23 .K5263 2016
Contents:
Where there's smoke : 1998-2001 -- Another kind of war : October 2001-May 2002 -- Descent into darkness : March-October 2002 -- The crucible : October 2003-May 2004 -- Martyrs' den : 2006-2007 -- Five assassins : May-July 2006 -- Prodigal soldiers : January-December 2007 -- Al-Qaeda pandemic : 2008-2010 -- The ghosts in the network : 2009-2010 -- The forgotten war : 2009-2010 -- American jihad : 2010-2011 -- Retribution : May-December 2011 -- Retrenchment : 2011-2012 -- Shadow war : 2013 -- The enemy votes : September-December 2013 -- Reflection in a broken mirror : 2013 -- Twilight warriors : 2013-2014 -- Going dark : 2013-2014 -- A world on edge : 2015
Summary: "When U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of 2014, it signaled the end of the longest conflict in the nation's history. Yet we are still at war--no longer with other states, but with a host of new enemies, from nihilistic terrorists and narco-traffickers to transnational criminal cartels, lone wolf assassins, and modern-day pirates. Standing against these foes is a tight-knit fraternity of soldiers, cops, lawyers, and spies. Together, these men have broken down the cultural and institutional boundaries among their respective agencies to engineer a new, network-centric way of fighting: one that uses a seamless web of intelligence analysts, high-tech information networks, and Special Forces units to take the fight to America's enemies as never before. These disciplined, patriotic servicemen form a band of brothers that, over the past half century, has fundamentally reshaped the way America defends itself."--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index

Where there's smoke : 1998-2001 -- Another kind of war : October 2001-May 2002 -- Descent into darkness : March-October 2002 -- The crucible : October 2003-May 2004 -- Martyrs' den : 2006-2007 -- Five assassins : May-July 2006 -- Prodigal soldiers : January-December 2007 -- Al-Qaeda pandemic : 2008-2010 -- The ghosts in the network : 2009-2010 -- The forgotten war : 2009-2010 -- American jihad : 2010-2011 -- Retribution : May-December 2011 -- Retrenchment : 2011-2012 -- Shadow war : 2013 -- The enemy votes : September-December 2013 -- Reflection in a broken mirror : 2013 -- Twilight warriors : 2013-2014 -- Going dark : 2013-2014 -- A world on edge : 2015

"When U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of 2014, it signaled the end of the longest conflict in the nation's history. Yet we are still at war--no longer with other states, but with a host of new enemies, from nihilistic terrorists and narco-traffickers to transnational criminal cartels, lone wolf assassins, and modern-day pirates. Standing against these foes is a tight-knit fraternity of soldiers, cops, lawyers, and spies. Together, these men have broken down the cultural and institutional boundaries among their respective agencies to engineer a new, network-centric way of fighting: one that uses a seamless web of intelligence analysts, high-tech information networks, and Special Forces units to take the fight to America's enemies as never before. These disciplined, patriotic servicemen form a band of brothers that, over the past half century, has fundamentally reshaped the way America defends itself."--Provided by publisher

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