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Chapters (12)
  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Chapter One - DESERT FOX
  4. Chapter TWO - 12,000 MILES FROM PHILADELPHIA
  5. CHAPTER THREE - THE POINT OF THE SPEAR
  6. CHAPTER FOUR - THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
  7. Chapter FIVE - SOMALIA
  8. CHAPTER SIX - CENTCOM
  9. CHAPTER SEVEN - WARRIOR PEACEMAKER
  10. CHAPTER EIGHT - THE CALLING
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. INDEX

Ala, Abu

Albright, Madeleine

Al Jazeera

All-Volunteer Force

Al Qaeda

Altynbayev, Gen.

Ambassadors

American Empire

Amphibious ops

Anderson, W. M., Maj.

Annan, Kofi

Arabs

Arafat, Yasser

Armitage, Richard

Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)

Arroyo, Gloria

Asymmetric capabilities

Atto, Osman

Authorized Weapons Storage Sites (AWSSs)

Avebury, Eric, Lord

Ba’ath party headquarters

Badime

Baker, James

Balkans

Bandar, Prince

Bangladeshi Battalion

Barak, Ehud

Barre, Siad

Barzani, Masoud

Battle Command Training Program (BCTP)

Battlefield commander

Battlefield reports

Battle of the Bong Son Plain

Battle of Gallipoli

Battle of Mogadishu

Battle rhythm

Battle Staff

Bedard, Buck, Col.

Beirut Air Bridge

Beirut Marine barracks bombing

Berger, Sandy

Berlin

Berlin Wall

Binh Dinh Province (II CTZ)

Bin Jassim, Hamad

Bin Laden, Osama

Birddog light observation plane (“Herbie”)

Body counts

Bong Son Plain

battle of

Booby traps

Booz Allen

Bosnia

Boutros-Ghali, Boutros

Bright Star (military exercise)

Brooks, Karen

Burch, Hal, Brig.

Burns, Bill

Buscemi, Mario, Lt. Gen.

Bush, George H. W.

Bush, George W.

Bushnell, Prudence

Butler, Richard

C-130

Cadre status

Campbell, Don, Brig. Gen.

Camp David negotiations

Camp Foster

Camp Hansen

Camp Hauge

Camp Lejeune

Camp Pendleton

Capstone course

Careerism

Caribbean

Carter administration

Center of gravity

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Central Asia

Central Command, U.S. (CENTCOM)

Zinni appointed DCINC

Zinni appointed CINC

and Somalia

staff organization

strategy, politics, and New American Empire

CH-53 helo

Chalabi, Ahmed

Checkpoint Charlie

Chelberg, Bob, Lt. Gen.

Cheney, Dick

China

Cholera

Christians

Civil Agency Response Element (CARE)

Civil-Military Operations Center (CMOC)

Clark Air Force Base

Clinton administration

Camp David negotiations

National Security Strategy

new global strategy

Coalition Support Teams

Code to live by

Cohen, William

Cold War . See also Soviet Union

aftermath of

peace dividend from

vestiges of

Combat missions

Combined Task Force (CTF)

Commander in chief (CINC)

Commander in chief Europe (CINCEUR)

Company D

Company tactical test

Company training

Components

Concepts and Capabilities Branch

Conflict resolution

Congress, U.S.

Congressional delegation (CODEL)

Constitution, U.S.

Containment

Conventional war

Crisis Action Team (CAT)

Croizat, Victor J., Col.

Cuban revolution

Cymkin, Tom

Dahlan, Mohamed

Dalton, John

Dam Tra O

Danang

Danger close

Danoon, Nashwan, Brig. Gen.

DeCosta, Dick, Gunnery Sgt.

Defense Department, U.S.

Deputy commander in chief (DCINC)

Dereliction of Duty (McMaster)

Deskins, Corp.

Development

DiSabatino, Cecilia

DiSabatino, Zupito

Disaster assistance

Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART)

Displaced persons

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)

Dong Nai boats

Downing, Wayne, Gen.

Downing Commission

Draft

Drug use

Dual Containment

Dunant, Henri

Durant, Michael, Chief Warrant Officer

Early Bird

East Africa

East African Community (EAC)

East Berlin

Eastern bloc nations

East Timor

East-West competition

Egypt

Eisenhower, Dwight

Ekeus, Rolf

Eliezer, Ben

Elmo, Capt.

Emerald Express

Engagement

Environmental security

Erekat, Sa’eb

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Ethiopia-Eritrea war

Ethnic hatred

Europe

European Command, U.S. (EUCOM)

Evil Empire

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)

Failed states

Fast-breaking missions

Feedback

Fieldcraft

Firefights

sense of

Fire procedure

1st Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF)

Flak jacket

Flamethrower

Fleet Antiterrorist Support Team (FAST)

Former Soviet Union (FSU)

Forward headquarters

France

Franks, Tommy, Gen.

Free Aceh Movement (GAM)