Chapter 27: Special Operations
1. Stephen Tanner, Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War Against the Taliban (New York: Da Capo Press, 2002), pp. 176–87.
2. Milton Bearden, “Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires,” Foreign Affairs, vol. 80, no. 6 (November/December 2001).
3. Rumsfeld, “The President,” December 5, 2001.
4. Wolfowitz to Rumsfeld, “Using Special Forces on ‘Our Side’ of the Line,” September 23, 2001.
5. General Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell, American Soldier (New York: Regan Books, 2004), p. 281.
6. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (New York: W.W. Norton, 2004), p. 139.
7. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Strategic Thoughts,” September 30, 2001.
8. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Strategic Thoughts,” September 30, 2001.
9. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Strategic Thoughts,” September 30, 2001.
10. Department of Defense Office of Public Affairs, “Fact Sheet: International Contributions to the War Against Terrorism,” June 7, 2002 (revised June 14, 2002).
11. Bob Woodward, Bush at War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002).
12. Milton Bearden, “Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires,” Foreign Affairs, vol. 80, no. 6 (November/December 2001).
13. Rohrabacher, letter to Rumsfeld, September 26, 2001.