The world's best trained, best equipped and most feared soldiers have been fighting a war in the shadows for the last decade. The tip of the spear in the war on terror, Special Forces operators from the US, UK and other Coalition countries have led the fight against insurgents and terrorists around the world. Operating in secrecy, usually heavily outnumbered and often deployed deep inside enemy territory, these operators are the new face of modern war. Packed with their stories, photographs and details of the operation they have conducted, Special Forces in the War on Terror is a full history of their war, from the earliest Green Beret operations in Afghanistant throught to SEAL Team 6's kill-or-capture mission against Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad--and beyond.

Includes maps of: Afghanistan; Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan, Task Force Insertions, OCT-DEC 2001; Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan, Inflitration Routes and Areas of Responsibility, 2001; Operation Anaconda; Takur Ghar - The Rangers' Battle on the Peak, 4 MAR 2002; Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan, Major Operations 2001 and 2002; Iraq; Operation Iraqi Freedom - Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Areas of Responsibility and Infiltration Routes, APR 2003; Battle of the Debekca Crossroads, 6 APR 2003; Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan, Special Operations Task Force Areas of Responsibility, 2010-2014; Foreign Fighter Infiltration Routes (Ratlines), Iraq, 2005; Killing of Usay and Qusay Hussein, 22 JUL 2003; Operation Iraqi Freedom - Joint Special Operations Command Task Force Areas of Responsibility, 2006-2007; Delta Force Raid, Al Sukariyah, Syria, OCT 2008; Linda Norgrove Rescue Attempt, OCT 2010; Operation Jubilee, MAY 2012; Operation Neptune Spear, MAY 2011; United States Special Operations Forces in Africa, 2013-2014; Operations in Somalia, 2009-2013; Operation Serval, Mali, 2013.

Introduction : the world before 9/11 -- Enduring Freedom : Afghanistan 2001-2002 -- Iraqi Freedom : Iraq 2003 -- Countering insurgency : Afghanistan 2002-2009, Iraq 2003-2011, and the Philippines 2002 onward -- Industrial counterterrorism : hunting al-Qaeda in Iraq 2003-2012 -- Kill or capture : Afghanistan 2006-2014 -- New theaters : Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Mali, and Syria -- The long war.