Relentless Strike : The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command (9781466876224) (96 page)

 

ALSO BY
SEAN NAYLOR

Not a Good Day to Die

Clash of Chariots

(with Tom Donnelly)

 

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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Author's Note

Prologue

Map of Afghanistan

Map of Afghanistan/Tora Bora/Pakistan

Maps of Iraq and Baghdad

Map of Horn of Africa

PART I—THE FERRARI IN THE GARAGE

1   A Phoenix Rises

2   JSOC Gets Its Feet Wet

3   Frustration in the Middle East

4   Payoff in Panama

5   Manhunts, Motorboats, and Mogadishu

6   Forging Bonds in the Balkans

7   Loose Nukes and Missed Opportunities

PART II—A NEW ERA DAWNS

8   “Fairly Ponderous and Enormously Heavy”

9   Risky Missions and Empty Targets

10 “Carte Blanche”

11 Precious Cargo

12 Rumsfeld Falls for JSOC

13 Bin Laden Slips Away

14 “Patton's Three Principles of War”

PART III—BUILDING THE MACHINE

15 Invasion

16 The Deck of Cards

17 Building a Network

18 “JSOC on Steroids”

19 Snake Eyes

20 Killing Zarqawi

21 A New Campaign Against an Old Enemy

PART IV—A GLOBAL CAMPAIGN

22 Close Target Reconnaissance in Syria

23 Back to Mogadishu

24 Victory in Mosul?

25 Rangers Step Up in Afghanistan

26 Hit and Miss in Pakistan

27 A Reckoning in Abbottabad

28 Successes, and a Failure

29 Extortion 17

30 Old Enemies, New Challenges

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Photographs

About the Author

Also by Sean Naylor

Copyright

 

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

 

Naylor, Sean.

    Relentless strike: the secret history of Joint Special Operations Command / Sean Naylor. — First edition.

        p. cm.

    ISBN 978-1-250-01454-2 (hardcover)

    ISBN 978-1-4668-7622-4 (e-book)

    1. United States. Joint Special Operations Command—History.  2. Special operations (Military science)—United States—History.  3. Terrorism—Prevention—United States—History.  4. United States—History, Military—21st century.  I. Title.  II. Title: Relentless strike, the secret history of JSOC.  III. Title: Secret history of Joint Special Operations Command.

 

    UA34.J65N39 2015

    355.4'60973—dc23

2015017796

e-ISBN 9781466876224

 

First Edition: September 2015