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An African‑American Special Operations sniper recounts his record‑setting career during the War on Terror, highlighting deployments to Afghanistan and a legendary duel with an enemy sniper dubbed The Chechnian.

Former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates gives a candid, personal account of his time serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

West Point graduate, Rhodes scholar and Army Ranger, Captain Craig Mullaney reflects on how his rigorous education shaped his leadership in the Afghanistan battle of Losano Ridge, then transfers that experience to teach future Navy and Marine officers.

A first‑hand chronicle of the October 2009 Kamdesh assault, told by Staff Sergeant Clinton Romesha, Medal of Honor recipient, detailing the peril faced by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.

In this New York Times bestseller, award-winning combat reporter Sean Naylor reveals how close American forces came to disaster in Afghanistan against Al Qaida-after easily defeating the ragtag Taliban that had sheltered the terrorist organization behind the 9/11 attacks.At dawn on March 2, 2002, over 200 soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions flew into the mouth of a buzz saw in the Shahikot Valley. Believing the war all but over, U.S. military leaders refused to commit the troops and materiel required to fight the war's biggest battle-a missed opportunity to crush hundreds of Al Qaida's fighters and some of its most senior leaders. Eyewitness Naylor vividly portrays the heroism of the young, untested soldiers unprepared for the ferocious enemy they fought; the mistakes that led to a hellish mountaintop firefight; and how thirteen American commandos embodied "Patton's three principles of war"-audacity, audacity and audacity-by creeping unseen over frozen mountains into the heart of an enemy stronghold to prevent a U.S. military catastrophe.