Pale horse : hunting terrorists and commanding heroes with the 101st Airborne Division

Blackmon, Jimmy F (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781250072719 (hardcover) :
Physical Description: print
xx, 341 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), map ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Surrounded by talent -- Pre-deployment site survey -- Wanat -- Air cavalry reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquistion -- A cavalry state of mind -- A hateful day -- Leaving -- It all begins -- Counterinsurgency -- Korengal - Learning the hard way -- Cowboys and Indians -- Bari Ali -- Mountain warrior -- The plan begins to unravel -- The watapur -- Summer -- Ganjgal and Shuryak -- Getting out of Nuristan -- COP Keating -- COP Lowell -- Bittersweet goodbye.