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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.

  • 6The 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.

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