Battle Ready

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Chapter One - DESERT FOX

Chapter TWO - 12,000 MILES FROM PHILADELPHIA

CHAPTER THREE - THE POINT OF THE SPEAR

CHAPTER FOUR - THE NEW WORLD DISORDER

Chapter FIVE - SOMALIA

CHAPTER SIX - CENTCOM

CHAPTER SEVEN - WARRIOR PEACEMAKER

CHAPTER EIGHT - THE CALLING

Acknowledgements

INDEX

Semper Fi!
Bestselling author Tom Clancy teams up with one of the most knowledgeable and
outspoken Marine generals of our time in a book that propels you into the politics and
passions of war . . .

“A BOOK THAT DEMANDS OUR ATTENTION.”—Booklist

Marine General Tony Zinni was known as the “Warrior Diplomat” during his nearly forty years of service. As a soldier, his credentials were impeccable, whether leading troops in Vietnam, commanding hair-raising rescue operations in Somalia, or—as Commander in Chief of CENTCOM—directing strikes against Iraq and Al Qaeda. But it was as a peacemaker that he made just as great a mark—conducting dangerous troubleshooting missions all over Africa, Asia, and Europe; and then serving as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s special envoy to the Middle East, before disagreements over the 2003 Iraq War and its probable aftermath caused him to resign.

Battle Ready follows the evolution of both General Zinni and the Marine Corps, from the cauldron of Vietnam through the operational revolution of the seventies and eighties, to the new realities of the post-Cold War, post-9/11 military—a military with a radically different job and radically different tools for accomplishing it. It is an eye-opening book—a front-row seat to a man, an institution, and a way of both war and peace that together make this an instant classic of military history.

“We must salute Clancy for profiling Zinni . . . You come away thinking that you would have trusted your kid to Zinni’s command . . . Down at the Army’s infantry school at Fort Benning, the instructors have a saying: ‘Managers do things right, while leaders do the right thing.’ Zinni did the right thing.”

—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Fascinating . . . Clancy supplies lucid contexts for the general’s recollections that are the book’s meat . . . Zinni’s passion for ‘his’ Marines infuses Battle Ready . . . Zinni’s achievements and discontents make Battle Ready important . . . deserves to be widely read because of its timeliness and clarity.”

—Houston Chronicle

“It is Zinni’s twenty-four-page closing statement, ‘The Calling,’ that will sell the book to nonbuff civilians, summing up his service and the ways in which he feels his generation’s legacy is in jeopardy.”—Publishers Weekly

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Patriot GAMES
THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN
CLEAR and PRESENT DANGER
THE Sum OF All FEARS
WITHOUT REMORSE
DEBT OF Honor
EXECUTIVE ORDERS
RAINBOW SIX
THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON
RED RABBIT
THE TEETH OF THE TIGER
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