"Michael Walling has honored the American men and women who served in Operation Enduring Freedom by helping them tell their own stories. This is the war in Afghanistan as experienced by the people who fought it."General Tommy R. Franks, Ret. The war in Afghanistan has seen men and women thrown into America's longest sustained combat operation. For over 13 years, US military personnel have been embroiled in a conflict unlike any other, in a hostile country where danger and death lurk at every turn. The nature of the fighting has transformed not only the entire structure of the US military, b.

Cover; Title; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Attack; Chapter 2: Prelude to War; Chapter 3: Reckoning: Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001; Chapter 4: Reckoning Part II: Operation Enduring Freedom, 2002; Chapter 5: Resurgence, 2003; Chapter 6: Transition, 2004-05; Chapter 7: Resurgence, 2006-07; Chapter 8: Reassessment, 2008; Chapter 9: Surge, 2009; Chapter 10: New Initiatives, 2010; Chapter 11: Drawdown, 2011; Chapter 12: End Game, 2012-13; Epilogue; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Imprint

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