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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Prelude to Terror

2. Awakening the Giant

“Subdue Without Fighting”: JPOTF, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida

Developing the SOF Campaign at SOCCENT, Tampa, Florida

Top Draft Choices: 10th SFG, Fort Carson, CO, and 7th SFG, Fort Bragg, NC

5th SFG = CJSOTF-North, Fort Campbell, Kentucky

Standing Up JSOTFs in Tampa and Fort Campbell

Committed to Middle East Exercises

3rd SFG Prepares for the Horn of Africa at Fort Bragg

Thinking Ahead: Senior Liaison Officers for Resistance Leaders

Civil Affairs to Islamabad, Pakistan

Of Vital Importance: PSYOP

Site Coordination With the Uzbeks at Karshi Kanabad

Uncorking the Bottled Airlift

All Credit Cards Accepted at K2 Gas Station

Air Campaign and CSAR Go Hand in Hand

Making Camp Freedom a Fully Operational Base: K2, Uzbekistan

Northern Air Campaign CSAR = MH-47Es

Building Camp Freedom at Double Time

The Universal Morale Booster at K2—Hot Food

Special Forces: CSAR Personnel Recovery and UW Preparation

Real Estate and Security at K2

Task Force Dagger = JSOTF-North at K2

Hot-Wiring the “Snake”: Rearranging JSOTF-North Communications

Building the JOC Inside the “Snake”: TF Dagger’s JOC

Staff “Battle Captain”: The Combat Operations “Pulse Monitor”

Different Intelligence Concerns for Air Planners

JSOTF-North Growing Pains at K2

We Don’t Fail

DAPs Set the Stage for UW in Afghanistan

3. Toppling the Taliban in Afghanistan 19 October - 7 December 2001

Jumping Into the Dark: Seizing Rhino, 19 October 2001

Tactical PSYOP for Rhino

Showing American Power

“Look, We Have to Get the Special Forces Teams Into Afghanistan!”

On Horseback With Dostum

ODA 595 Begins Bombing Taliban Defenses

Aerial Resupply From the Receiver

Aerial Resupply by SOCEUR

A “Bump” and Missiles in the Abyss

500 Afghans Can Die, But Not One American Can Be Injured

AAA = A Bad Night in the Hindu Kush

Getting a Handle on the Air Threat

Fostering Faith and Providing Solace

AAA Payback Time

Bastogne in Afghanistan

“Little Birds” of Prey

High Desert Rat Patrol

The Great Communications Terminus

Resupply From 10,000 Feet

PSYOP = Hard, Steady Work

A Supportive Populace

Getting PSYOP on the Ground in Afghanistan

Have Tools Will Travel

Mr. President

A significant Meeting With an Unusual Man

The Battle of Tarin Kowt

SOCCENT to Mazar-e-Sharif

Al-Qaeda Uprising—Qala-i-Jangi—24-29 November

ODA 583 Meets Gul Agha Sherzai

The Fight at Tahk-te-pol

Fighting at Arghastan Bridge

Plans Versus Reality

The Karzai Way to Kandahar

Charge to the Airport and Back Again

Attacking the Arghendab Bridge With Karzai

Who Dares, Wins

Death From Above

Another Reaction to Kandahar’s Fall

CA and Humanitarian Relief

CA Teams on the Ground

Tactical PSYOP to Mazar-e-Sharif

Emergency Casualty Evacuation at K2

4. The Campaign in Transition 8 December 2001 - 28 February 2002

Old Glory Flies Again in Kabul

Tora Bora

One Army

The Answer is Out There

A New Twist on an Old Idea

Chokepoint

“60 Minutes II”

High-Altitude Rescue of a Marine CH-53

Taking Down al-Qaeda at the Mir Wais Hospital

The Raid at Hazar Qadam

SR Eyes on Target

From EMT to Special Forces Force Multiplier

Politics, War, and Rapport

GTMO Bound

CA Liaison Work

CJSOTF-West

End of Mission—Aerial Resupply in Afghanistan

“We’re Going for Sure This Time”

Be Prepared for SSE

Native Pashto and Dari Speaker Seeking PSYOP Assignment

Keep on Trucking

Rescue at 10,000 Feet

Date Drop at Khowst

ODA 394: The Next Mission

5. The New War

Entering the Valley

Field Expedient Triage

Disaster and Frustration

Combat Multipliers

D-Day ANACONDA From the Viewpoint of Force Multipliers

ARSOF in Direct Support

On Again-Off Again

With the Aussies

Forty-Five Seconds Too Long

Never Leave a Fallen Comrade

Against All Odds

Joining the Fight on Takur Ghar

ODA 394 Climbs the “Whale”

Integrating Civil Affairs

Ambush at 80 Knots

Trail of Caches

Establishing CJSOTF-Afghanistan

Communications at Bagram

High Desert Automation Management

“Good Morrrrning, Afghannnnistan”

A Disaster Provides a Catalyst

The Communications Handoff

Better Communications

CJSOTF-Afghanistan and the Joint Air Component

CJSOTF-Afghanistan and “Zulu Time”

Command Guidance and VTCs

Rebuilding the Kabul Military Academy

Another View of the Kabul Military Academy Task

“Chiclets” and PSYOP Teams in Kandahar

Their Lucky Day

Dealing With Cryptographic Compromise

Caves and Graves

Vietnam-Style A Camp at Orgun-e

A National Army for Afghanistan

Observations and Reflections

Preparation for War

Driving the Taliban From Power: ARSOF in the Supported Role

Transition and Combat Operations

The CJSOTF-Afghanistan Era Begins

Glossary

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Weapon of Choice: The Operations of U.S. Army Special Forces in Afghanistan

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