Page 373: His brother Charlie: Melissa Bower, “Flynn Promoted to Brigadier General,” Fort Leavenworth Lamp, September 08, 2011.
Page 373:… violence is the worst it has been in nine years: Michael Hastings, “King David’s War,” Rolling Stone, February 2, 2011.
Page 373: “We are losing the battle for hearts and minds”: “An Open Letter to President Obama,” www.afghanistancalltoreason.com, December 2010.
Page 373:… “more constructive local leadership”: Josh Partlow, “Ahmed Wali Karzai, Half Brother of Afghan President, Killed by Trusted Confidant,” The Washington Post, July 12, 2011.
Page 373:… 64 percent of Americans: Scott Wilson and Jon Cohen, “Poll: Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Say Afghan War Isn’t Worth Fighting,” The Washington Post, March 15, 2011.
Page 373: On Capitol Hill, 204 congressmen voted against: Eugene Mulero, “House Passes Defense Bill After Close Vote on Afghanistan Withdrawal,” Congressional Quarterly Today, May 26, 2011.
Page 374: “Seven Days in May dynamic”: Marc Ambinder, “How the White House Played Petraeus,” National Journal, June 23, 2011.
Page 374: Obama meets with Petraeus: Andrea Terkel, “Petraeus Backs Obama’s Afghanistan Plan But Says Drawdown Is More ‘Aggressive’ Than Military Wanted,” Huffington Post, June 23, 2011.
Page 375:… “was a more aggressive [drawdown] option”: Mark Landler and Helene Cooper, “Obama Will Speed Military Pullout from Afghan War,” The New York Times, June 23, 2011.
EPILOGUE: SOMEDAY, THIS WAR’S GONNA END
Page 376: Obama plays only nine holes of golf: Christopher Dickey, Ron Moreau, and Sami Yousafzai, “A Decade on the Lam,” Newsweek, May 6, 2011.
Page 376: Biden played with a rosary ring: Mark Mazzetti, Helene Cooper, and Peter Baker, “Behind the Hunt for Bin Laden,” The New York Times, May 3, 2011.
Page 376: Admiral Mullen had his own: Mark Landler, “Obama’s Growing Trust in Biden Is Reflected in His Call on Troops,” The New York Times, June 25, 2011.
Page 376: Hillary put her hands up: Barry Moody, “Clinton: Allergy, Not Anguish in My Bin Laden Photo,” Reuters, May 5, 2011.
Page 377:… for forty minutes: Federal News Service, White House Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, Washington, DC, May 3, 2011.
Page 377: Obama turned to his team: N. Schmidle, “Getting Bin Laden,” The New Yorker, August 8, 2011.
Page 378:… more than double the total: http://www.icasualties.org., October 17, 2011.
Page 379:… the twenty-three Navy SEALs who killed him: N. Schmidle, “Getting Bin Laden,” The New Yorker, August 8, 2011.
An index for this book is available at www.penguin.com/theoperatorsextras.
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