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Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), 161–62, 166, 168, 170–73, 175, 177–80, 183–84, 192, 195, 213, 219, 235, 247, 263
Albu Mahal and, 186–87, 259
al-Masri named head of, 235
Amman bombings and, 197–98
Ansar al-Sunnah and, 247–48, 260, 261
Jihad and Reform Front and, 263
networks of, 194
Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha and, 241–42
Yusufiyah buildings of, 203–6
Zarqawi as leader of, see Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-,
Al Qaim, 182–83, 185–86, 187, 244
Al Shabab, 249, 271
Amini, Abdullah, 341
Amman, hotel bombings in, 197–98, 214
Annan, Kofi, 68
Ansar al-Islam, 83–84
Ansar al-Sunnah (AAS), 167, 175, 209, 247–48, 260
Al Qaeda in Iraq and, 247–48, 260, 261
Arab-Israeli War, 37
Army, U.S.:
3rd Battalion, 19th Infantry, 41–44
XVIII Airborne Corps, 72–76, 79
24th Mechanized Infantry Division, 38, 40, 41, 44, 47, 56
160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, 16
Command and Staff College, 50–51
Directorate of Plans and Training, 39
Green, see Green
Joint Readiness Training Center, 64
National Training Center, 40–41, 42
Rangers, see Rangers
revitalization of, 37–38, 41, 48
Special Forces, see Special Forces
training in, 37, 40–41
Army, U.S., 82nd Airborne Division, 33, 45, 94, 266, 304, 391
2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 55–62
in Fallujah, 128, 129
Green Ramp accident at Pope Air Force Base, 56–59, 60, 61
jumpmasters in, 29–30
McChrystal in, 16, 22, 27–32, 38, 40, 47, 55–62, 70–71
Arroyo, Israel, 378, 379, 387–88
Aryan, Abdul Zahir, 370
Askariya shrine, Samarra, 204–5, 219, 223, 376
Atmar, Hanif, 329–30, 331, 335, 346, 360, 362
Atta, Mohammed, 72–73
Awakening movement, 241, 243, 247, 252, 262
Ayrow, Aden Hashi, 271
Azzam, Abdullah, 49
Azzam, Abu, 261
Baghdad, 111, 176, 181, 204, 261
Aimma Bridge stampede in, 195–96
belts around, 204, 378
bombings in, 197
ethnic cleansing in, 219, 261
insurgents in, 244
Sadr City, 132, 140, 204, 247, 377
Sadr City firefight, 267–69
troop surge and, 250, 261, 376
violence in, 219, 247, 261
Baghdad International Airport (BIAP), 90, 100, 106, 150, 200
Bailey, Jeff, 133
Baratto, David J., 19–20, 31
Barbero, Mike, 10
Barefoot, Wayne, 112–13, 138, 147, 175, 206–7, 235
Bargewell, Eldon, 173–75
Barno, David, 10, 82
Batalona, Wes, 126
Battle of Algiers, The, 123, 124
Behemoth (Hobbes), 273
Berg, Nicholas, 134–35
Biden, Joe, 349, 356–57
Biddle, Steve, 317
Bifulco, Rick, 13, 17
Big Ben arms cache, 139–45, 146, 148, 150, 238, 271
Bin Laden, Osama, 49, 51–52, 68–70, 71, 74–76, 83, 113–15, 168, 192, 266
audiotapes issued by, 165–66, 167
hunt for, 266
Saddam and, 192
Taliban and, 281
in Tora Bora, 266
Zarqawi and, 120–21, 152, 161, 166, 209, 236
Blackwater contractors, murder of, 89–90, 125–26, 130
Blair, Tony, 131
Boivin, Larry, 136, 137
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 148
Bowman, Rick, 16, 17
Brahimi, Lakhdar, 131
Bremer, L. Paul, 100, 111, 132, 136, 147
Briggs, Dan, 136, 137
Britain, 262
Afghanistan forces of, 320–23, 337, 349
India and, 326–27, 350
British Puma helicopter crash, 269
British Special Forces, 52, 53, 243–44
Brown, Doug, 94, 116, 133, 157, 177
Brown, Gordon, 262
Buford, John, 191, 192
Bush, George W., 74, 79, 83, 90, 100, 131, 196, 246, 249, 250, 252, 283, 288, 299
in National Security Council meeting, 188–91, 193
Caldwell, Bill, 10
Caldwell, Tommy, 58
Callwell, C. E., 117
Camp Bucca, 208
Canavan, Mike, 56, 60
Caniano, William, 82
Caravans (Michener), 297
Carter, Jimmy, 23, 24, 37, 62
Carter, Nick, 364, 367–68, 370, 381
Casey, George, Jr., 147–48, 173, 175–81, 186, 233, 234, 238, 242–43, 247, 252, 254, 255, 261, 279
Castellano, Rosario, 307
Cédras, Raoul, 61–62
Central Command (CENTCOM), 53, 71, 83, 94, 95, 158, 159, 175, 202, 208, 212, 219, 254, 366
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 113, 116–19, 149, 151, 169, 264
Chaklala Airfield, 357
Cheney, Richard (Dick), 51, 188
Christian, John, 140, 170–71, 175, 181–82, 183–84, 187, 259–60, 261, 263
Christmas, 3–7, 249
Churchill, Winston, 11–12, 353
Clarke, Torie, 82
Clausewitz, Carl von, 41, 50, 244
Clinton, Hillary, 355, 357
Clinton, William J. (Bill), 61–62
COIN Academy, 243
Cole, USS, 75, 173
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 389
Combined Joint Task Force 180, 76–78
Conway, James T. (Jim) 140
Corcoran, Edward, 20, 30, 79
Cordesman, Anthony (Tony) 317
Council on Foreign Relations, 67–68
Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team, 304
Crocker, Ryan, 82, 258–59, 266, 267, 268, 275
Cuffee, Steve, 55
Dadullah Lang, 264–65, 271, 308, 314, 320–21, 375
Dadullah, Mansoor, 265
Dailey, Dell, 108
Dale, Catherine, 317
Daley, Bill, 275
Danjou, Jean, 384–85
Daoud, Mohammed, 77, 280
Daraji, Rahim al-, 261
Dar es Salaam, embassy bombing in, 68–69, 71, 75, 249
Davis, Sergeant First Class, 28–29
Davis, Steve, 183
Dawah Party, 218, 258–59
Defense, Department of, 116, 118
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 155
De Kruif, Mart, 365–66
De Lattre de Tassigny, Jean, 288
Dempsey, Deanie, 278
Dempsey, Marty, 132, 278
DePuy, William, 17, 40
detainees, 207, 210
insurgency fomented among, 208
intelligence from, 111, 177, 199
from intercepted truck, 146–47, 202–3
interrogations of, 123–24, 153, 178, 199–203, 207–8, 348
limits on holding, 208
mistreatment of, 203
Mubassir, 209, 210–12, 214, 215–21, 223, 224, 233
from Yusufiyah, 206–12,
214
Diesing, Trevor John, 184
Dostum, Abdul Rashid, 281, 333–34
Downing, Wayne, 53, 54
Dubik, Jim, 262
Dunaway, Chris, 58
Dunaway, Jan, 58
Durand, Henry Mortimer, 327
Eggers, Jeff, 291, 330
Egypt, 48, 75
Eide, Kai, 337, 354
Eikenberry, Karl, 297, 305, 337, 339, 354, 355–56, 357, 360, 385, 386
Eisenhower, Dwight, 296
Eisenhower, John, 62
Ellsberg, Daniel, 352
Elphinstone, William, 293–94
Ethiopia, 249–50, 271
Exercise Bright Star, 48
Exum, Andrew, 317
Fahim, Mohammad, 334
Fall, Bernard, 18, 295
Fallujah, 121, 124, 125–31, 135–45, 146–48, 158–61, 173, 181
Big Ben safe house in, 139–45, 146, 148, 150, 238, 271
Fallujah Brigade, 135–36, 137, 141, 144
FBI, 149, 201, 203, 233, 234
Feir, Philip, 13, 14
Felek, Abu “Taha,” 209, 210
Flourney, Michele, 330
Flynn, Charlie, 4, 280, 285, 290, 293, 301, 308, 313, 317, 339, 378, 387, 394
Flynn, Lori, 384
Flynn, Mike, 4, 156, 158, 168, 169, 175, 176, 181, 220, 227, 229, 232, 240, 262, 290, 293, 296–97, 307, 339, 384
Force Strategic Engagement Cell (FSEC), 244, 248, 260, 261, 262, 263
Fort Benning, 25–26, 34, 45, 62
Fort Bragg, 38, 51, 55, 61–62, 72–75, 84–85, 93, 94, 96, 109, 110, 278
dinner for McRaven at, 233–34
Fort Irwin, 40
Fort Leavenworth, 50
Fort Lewis, 62–63
Fort Stewart, 37, 38–40, 44, 47, 65, 84
France, 300, 301
Franks, Fred, 255
Franks, Tommy, 108
Freeman, Douglas Southall, 95–96
Frontline, 338
Fuller, Kurt, 176, 180–81, 227, 229, 240, 262
Fussell, Chris, 267, 269–70, 272
Gagor, Franciszek, 383–84
Galbraith, Peter, 337
Galvin, John, 39
Garrison, Bill, 54, 108, 392
Gates, Robert, 246, 252, 284, 294–95, 306, 311, 316, 330, 333, 343, 345, 346, 349, 357, 388, 389
Gavin, Jim, 27–28
Gettysburg, 191–92, 361
Ghadiya, Abu, 221
Ghani, Ashraf, 334
Ghul, Hassan, 120
Gracie, Royce and Rorion, 63
Graham, Lindsey, 333
Graney, LaJuana, 41
Graney, Pierce T. (“Tom”), 41, 42–44, 45
Grant, Ulysses S., 9, 12, 21, 135, 287, 392
Great Escape, The, 17
Green (Army special mission unit), 89–92, 96–99
creation of, 96
in Iraq, 89–92, 158, 180, 183
reputation of, 97
Grenada, 45, 51, 60
Gulf War, 51–54, 60, 79, 91
Hadi al-Iraqi, Abdul, 152, 236
Hadley, Steve, 188
Haiti, 61–62
Hall, Brenda, 66
Hall, Jeff, 66
Hall, Mike, 4, 6, 66–67, 290, 301, 304, 313, 335, 394
Halsey, William, 135
Haqqanis, 304, 305, 323
Harvard University, 64–65
Harward, Bob, 348
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin, 281
Helmick, Frank, 10
Helton, Arthur, 107
Henry V, King, 391
Hibhib, 227–32, 235
Hill, Marvin, 262
Hitler, Adolf, 392
Hobbes, Thomas, 273
Holbrooke, Richard, 337, 351, 357
Hollenbaugh, Don, 136, 137
Holloway, James L., 25
Holtz, Emil, 31
Homage to Catalonia (Orwell), 87
Homer, 50
Horrigan, Robert (Bob), 182, 192
Horst, Karl, 389–90
House Armed Services Committe 82, 360
Howard, James, 58
Howard, Mike, 304
Huntington, Samuel, 351
IEDs (improvised explosive devices), 160, 185, 238, 265, 283, 289, 321, 337, 386
explosively formed projectile, 252
India, 326–27, 328, 350
Ingram, Michael (Mike), 378, 379
intelligence, 111, 156, 177, 199
intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft, 156–57, 177–78
UAVs, 137–40, 142, 145
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), 107–8, 120
International Institute for Strategic Studies, 349, 350
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), 264, 278, 282, 283, 287, 290, 293–97, 300–301, 305–8, 310–12, 317–18, 321–23, 329–32, 334–38, 341, 343, 347, 349, 352, 365, 383, 384, 386
August 2009 car bomb at headquarters of 335–36
Force Reintegration Cell, 353
Joint Command (IJC), 294, 337, 343, 386
McChrystal appointed commander of, 278, 287–88, 294
number of troops in, 296
Pakistan and, 328
Regional Command-Capital 300
Regional Command–East, 304–5
Regional Command–North, 305, 340–41
Regional Command-South 360, 364, 365
Regional Command–West, 307
Iran, 24, 33, 122, 252–53, 259, 330
hostage rescue mission (Operation Eagle Claw), 23, 24, 25, 34–36, 45, 60
Khazali and, 257–58
Iraq, 79–80, 93, 94, 100–108, 122, 277, 299, 356, 376
Afghanistan compared with, 376–77
air strike planning in, 142
Al Qaeda in, see Al Qaeda in Iraq
Al Qaim, 182–83, 185–86, 187, 244
American contractors murdered in, 89–90, 125–26, 130
Anbar Province, 52, 113, 128–30, 141, 147, 148, 158, 159, 170, 177, 183–84, 241, 249, 264
arms cache (Big Ben safe house) discovered in, 139–45, 146, 148, 150, 238, 271
attacks against U.N. and ICRC in, 107–8
Baghdad, see Baghdad
Balad base in, 150–51, 156, 168, 201
Basra, 256–57, 262
Coalition forces in, 84, 100, 101–2, 130, 131, 135, 141, 143, 144, 150, 158, 160, 161, 179, 180, 244, 252, 260, 263, 268
elections in, 176–77, 179, 198, 218
Euphrates River Valley, 6, 179–83, 186, 192, 244, 259
F3EA targeting cycle in, 153–54, 155, 157, 177
Fallujah, see Fallujah
Fallujah Brigade in, 135–36, 137, 141, 144
foreign jihadist volunteers in, 168, 170, 171–73, 175, 186
Free Iraqi Forces and, 81–82
Governing Council in, 131
government of, 218, 244
Green in, 89–92, 158
Green Zone in, 100
in Gulf War, 51–54, 60, 79, 91
Husaybah mine attack in, 184–85
Iraqi identity in, 122
Israel and, 52–54
Karbala attack in, 253, 257
Kuwait invaded by, 51–54
Marines in, 129–30, 131, 135–36, 137, 141, 159, 160, 179–80, 183, 264
McChrystal’s first trip to, 99–107
McChrystal’s leaving of, 271–72
McChrystal’s notes on strategy for, 106–7
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sp; Mosul, 102, 105, 130, 204
Mosul bombing, 167–68, 169, 247–48
Multi-National Force (MNF-I), 147, 173–75, 176, 179, 202, 204, 252, 254, 261
Ramadi, 104, 105, 129, 130, 237–43, 255, 350
Samarra mosque bombing, 204–5, 219, 223, 376
Special Forces attack on Khurmal camp, 83–84
Tikrit, 104–5
troop surge of 2007, 249, 250, 252, 261, 268
U.S. invasion of, 81–84, 92, 94, 100, 101, 192
Wahhabi massacre in, 119–20, 121
Yusufiyah, 203–12, 214, 252
Iraqi insurgency, 112, 121–23, 125–26, 128–32, 135–37, 140–45, 147, 148, 170, 171, 175, 184, 247, 255, 264, 376
in Baghdad, 244
bombings by, 159–60
“clear-hold-build” strategy against, 242
detention and, 208
guest houses used by, 183–84
Lamb’s reconciliation program and, 244–46, 259–61
in Ramadi, 237–41
strikes against, 159, 160–61
Sunnis and, 112, 129–31, 135, 136, 144, 148, 171, 195, 225, 236, 247, 252
“Irbil Five”, 253, 257
Ireland, 246
Islamic Courts Union, 249, 271
Israel, 52–54
Jackson, Thomas “Stonewall,” 46
Jafari, Ibrahim al-, 179
Jafari, Mohammad, 253, 259
Jaish al-Mahdi, 132, 252
Jalali, Ali, 334
Jan, Abdul Rahman, 320, 367, 369, 373, 374
Japan, 301
Jerak, Ivica, 184
Jihad and Reform Front, 263
Johnson, Lyndon B., 17, 32
Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 78–85, 93–94, 100, 280
Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF), 117–19, 168, 169, 170, 175, 221
Joint Staff (JS), 283–84
McChrystal as Director of, 279–80, 351
Jones, Jim, 306, 307, 316
Jordan, 264
Jutras, Sergeant First Class, 26
Kaczynski, Lech, 383
Kagan, Fred, 317
Kagan, Kimberly, 317
Karamat, Jehangir, 69
Karimi, Sher Mohammad, 300, 386
Karnow, Stanley, 351
Karzai, Ahmed Wali, 320, 382
Karzai, Hamid, 275, 311, 322, 342, 354, 355, 356, 358, 360, 362–63, 377
Akhundzada clan and, 319–20, 373, 374
Atta Mohammed Nur and, 306
as commander-in-chief, 364, 365, 370, 382
in elections, 323, 333, 334, 337, 342–43, 354
in Kandahar, 380–83
Kunduz Province incident and, 339–40, 342
Marjah offensive and, 276, 364–65, 368
McChrystal’s meetings with, 276, 297–99
Taliban and, 282, 299, 308, 314, 319, 370–71, 375, 382
in U.S., 385