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22) One killer force
Author
Series
Delta Force novels (Dalton Fury) volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Still recovering from his near fatal wounds suffered at the Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant, Delta Force Commander Major Kolt 'Racer' Raynor is thrust into a new battle with some of the toughest killers he's ever faced: US Navy SEALs. Government austerity measures have the Joint Chiefs of Staff contemplating the unthinkable--combining Delta Force and the SEALs into a single unit: One Killer Force. In this installment of [Fury's] series, Kolt's career...
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Schmitt and Shanker of "The New York Times" tell the story of how a group of analysts within the Pentagon, at spy agencies, and in law enforcement have devised and carried out an innovative and effective new strategy to fight terrorism, unbeknownst to most Americans.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments
From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden's compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group—commonly
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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"THE GREAT WAR OF OUR TIME offers an unprecedented assessment of the CIA while at the forefront of our nation's war against al-Qa'ida and during the most remarkable period in the history of the Agency. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation," Michael Morell is a top CIA officer who saw it all--the only person with President Bush on 9/11/01 and with President Obama on 5/1/11 when Usama Bin Laden was brought to justice. Like Ghost Wars, See No Evil,...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
A veteran military and security analyst and commentator, reconstructing a minute-by-minute narrative of 9/11, asks and answers some vital questions: What did we learn from 9/11? And are we any more likely to be ready if something like it ever happened again?
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A former senior advisor at U.S. Special Operations Command recounts the history of the United States' ongoing battle against Al Qaida, describing investigations conducted by the combined efforts of the CIA, FBI, and MI5 and the shifting alliances between terrorist groups.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on terror. In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA's secret campaign against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on Russia, Vickers transformed the campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghans win their war. More than any other American, he was responsible for the outcome in Afghanistan that led to...
Author
Publisher
Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This book showcases primary documents that follow the events of the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent War on Terror. Through such documents as speeches, diplomatic exchanges, military communiques, and government reports issued by opposing sides in the global conflict, valuable insights into the role of diplomacy, military strategy, national security concerns, and ideological propaganda in the global War on Terror and their influences on the 21st-century...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The anthrax mailings of 2001 triggered the FBI's biggest and most complicated investigation since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Now, for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Willman tells the gripping story of the hunt for the anthrax killer--a case that consumed the FBI and became a rallying point for launching the Iraq War.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Publishing Group, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This book examines the events of September 11, 2001, focusing on the attack on the World Trade Center when two passenger planes were flown into the WTC buildings, killing nearly three thousand people. It explores the events leading up to this horrific attack and the terrorist group responsible, as well as the attack itself and its long-lasting ramifications, including the war into which the United States entered shortly after the attack.
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Launching a propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young woman shares her harrowing experience of being wrongly accused of terrorism. Adama Bah grew up in East Harlem after immigrating from Conakry, Guinea, and was deeply connected to her community and the people who lived there. But as a thirteen-year-old after the events of September 11, 2001, she began experiencing discrimination and dehumanization as prejudice toward Muslim people grew....
Author
Series
Delta Force novels (Dalton Fury) volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Kolt "Racer" Raynor and his Delta Force squadron are in Greece, providing VIP security for the newly elected and deeply controversial American president on his desperate mission to hold the NATO alliance together. Then, the unimaginable happens. Just as the president is arriving, an assassin's bullet takes the life of the Greek prime minister. The president is safe, but Raynor recognizes the killer by his grisly signature: a bullet through his targets...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"Why are American citizens--white nationalists and militant Islamists--committing acts of terrorism against their own country? What are their worldviews and how do they compare? Why is the current counterterrorism paradigm not working, and what can be done to address this increasingly transnational peril from within? Homegrown Hate is a groundbreaking and deeply researched work that directly juxtaposes militant Islamism and white nationalism in the...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive account of an FBI special agent's al-Qaeda story, unredacted for the first time. In the fight against al-Qaeda, former FBI special agent Ali H. Soufan became a legend on the basis of his deft questioning of prisoners, which often short-circuited al-Qaeda plots in the pipeline. Physical or mental violence played no part in this success. He never laid a hand on the suspected terrorists. Other U.S. intelligence agencies took orders directly...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel of the report of the 9/11 Commission reveals the Commission's findings regarding the terrorist attacks on the United States and its recommendations concerning what the United States government needs to do in its wake.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Created in the wake of the greatest tragedy to occur on U.S. soil, the Department of Homeland Security was handed a sweeping mandate: make America safer. It would encompass intelligence and law enforcement agencies, oversee natural disasters, commercial aviation, border security and ICE, cybersecurity, and terrorism, among others. From 2009-2013, Janet Napolitano ran DHS and oversaw 22 federal agencies with 230,000 employees. In How Safe Are We?,...
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