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A carregar... Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Manpor Dalton Fury
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Let me first say, I really enjoy Dalton Fury's books, but this one took some perseverance, to finish. He definitely captured the essence, of the futility Delta Force, had to contend with, trying to find, capture or kill Usama bin Laden. Delta Force is an elite fighting force. Trained to execute a mission under any conditions. This book is about the mission in Afghanistan's snowed-covered Tora Bora Mountains, in Dec 2001, only three months after America was attacked on Sept 11. They were forced Into a supporting role with the Afghan mujahideen. The arduous conditions and magnitude of trying to support themselves in the mountains is a feat in itself. I think the story could have been told in a lot less pages. Give it a try and read for yourself what it was like. ( ) Written by a recent Delta retiree, the book was constructed to document efforts to find and kill Usama bin Laden. It was written prior to the actual killing of UBL by Navy SEALs and from the author's perspective, that of a tactical operator. Sometimes he besmirched decisions made above his pay grade--typical for someone who's not been to high levels of command. Sometimes, the action gets very, very tactical...to me that's boring. He obviously loved his job and those with whom he fought for his country; thus the book. It is not too often that a member of Delta comes out with a "tell all" recounting of a particular operation. However, this is one where it provides significant value-added to the body of work on what really happened at Tora Bora, in the mountains of Afghanistan. Dalton Fury, writing under a pseudonym, is a recently retired member of Delta, and offered this account after he felt the story had not been truly articulated to the public, and moreover to give proper credence to the herculean effort that Delta, US Special Forces and others underwent, and almost succeeded in capturing/killing Bin Laden. Of interest is the close cooperation/lack of cooperation the mujahedin provided in the effort, and the constraints that were placed on the US special operators during the struggle. The author rightly suggests that it is highly likely that the Afghan fighters were complicit in allowing UBL to escape. What we dont know however, is how close Delta came in killing Bin Laden. What is known, and Fury does a great job of recounting the battle, is Delta operated under horrible conditions, in terrain not well suited for any type of protracted combat, but yet still managed to inflict significant casualties on Al Qaida, and if the story is true, prompted Bin Laden to allow his forces to surrender. Stories like these are not often told so close to the actual event, which is too bad, because these types of stories need to provide some context to the reporting from safe distances, which often dont capture the true essence of the actions. A great read, and a valuable addition to the complex story of the early days of US operations in Afghanistan. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world--a mission requiring the best America had to offer: roughly forty members of America's super-secret counterterrorist unit, an élite and mysterious unit known as Delta Force. And these Delta warriors had the best help they could ask for: the CIA, a dozen of the British Queen's elite commandos, and another dozen or so Army Green Berets. This team waged a modern-day siege of epic proportions against bin Laden and his seemingly impenetrable cave sanctuary, deep inside the Spin Ghar Mountain range. Over the years since the battle, news stories have surfaced offering tidbits of information about what actually happened in the caves of Tora Bora, most of it conjecture and speculation. This is the first firsthand account of this battle, and an inside look at the extraordinary nature of Delta Force and how they operate.--From publisher description. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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