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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Fogs of war and peace	Robert L. Dilworth	This work focuses on continual global conflict and how American views are being obstructed through a concept referred to as "fogs of war" that distort reality. The authors discuss the root of these p…	OL11958208W
Spoken from the Front	Andy McNab	Real life voices from the battlefields of AfghanistanSpoken from the Front will tell the stories of what Andy McNab describes as "modern-day heroes fighting modern-day wars". It will recount the cour…	OL15173308W
Last Night Another Soldier	Andy McNab	A new Quick Read title from the author of Bravo Two ZeroAfghanistan, 2009. A Rifle section is halfway through their six-month tour of duty in Helmand Province. Sixteen men from their Battalion have a…	OL15174162W
Lone survivor	Marcus Luttrell	On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader…	OL16070553W
My Share of the Task	Stanley A. McChrystal	General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, frankly explores the major episodes and controversies of his eventful career.	OL16714950W
12 strong	Doug Stanton	Documents the post-September 11 mission during which a small band of Special Forces soldiers captured the strategic Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif as part of an effort to defeat the Taliban, in a dram…	OL18184601W
Run, don't walk	Adele Levine	"MAS*H meets Scrubs in a sharply observant, absurdly funny, inspiring, and totally unique debut memoir from a physical therapist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the birthplace of physical thera…	OL19704943W
American military intervention in unconventional war	Wayne Bert	PART I: INTRODUCTION The New International Environment US Policies: Origins and Objectives Counterinsurgency and US Adaptation to Fourth Generation War PART II: CASE STUDIES The Philippines: 1898-190…	OL19825943W
Tell my sons	Mark M. Weber	"At the high point of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Wi…	OL19968152W
Section 60	Robert M. Poole	The acclaimed author of On Hallowed Ground, using Section 60 of the Arlington National Cemetery as a window into the latest wars, recounts stories of courage and sacrifice by fallen heroes and how th…	OL19988016W
Charlie Mike	Joe Klein	"This is the true story of two decorated combat veterans linked by tragedy, who come home from the Middle East and find a new way to save their comrades and heal their country. In Charlie Mike, Joe K…	OL20010322W
The longest kill	Harrison, Craig (Sniper)	It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the e…	OL20020024W
Our latest longest war	Aaron B. O'Connell	"Our Latest Longest War is a chronicle of how, why, and in what ways the war in Afghanistan failed. Edited by historian and Marine lieutenant colonel Aaron B. O'Connell, the essays collected here rep…	OL20052822W
Choice of Enemies	Lawrence Freedman	A prize-winning historian takes an exceptionally clear-eyed look at America's strategic predicament in the Middle East, over the past 30 years.	OL21240019W
The unexpected war	Janice Stein	This book reveals tough realities about how public servants and politicians dither and avoid hard decisions in Ottawa and about how our senior public service needs a deep shake-up.	OL26196691W