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BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS

Afghan Guerrilla Warfare—In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters,
by Ali Ahmad Jalali and Lester W. Grau, published 2001 by MBI Publishing Company (originally published as
The Other Side of the Mountain
by the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Development Command).

Afghanistan’s Endless War,
by Larry Goodson, published 2001 by the University of Washington Press.

The Bear Went Over the Mountain—Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan,
by Lester W. Grau, published 1998 by Frank Cass.

Black Hawk Down,
by Mark Bowden, published 1999 by Atlantic Monthly Press.

Brave Men, Dark Waters—The Untold Story of the Navy SEALs,
by Orr Kelly, published 1993 by Pocket Books.

Delta Force,
by Colonel Charlie A. Beckwith (Ret.) and Donald Knox, published 2000 by Avon Books (originally published in 1983).

Ghost Wars,
by Steve Coll, published 2004 by The Penguin Press.

Inside Delta Force,
by Eric L. Haney, published 2003 by Dell (first published in hardcover in 2002 by Delacorte Press).

Jihad—The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia,
by Ahmed Rashid, published in 2003 by Penguin (first published in the United States in 2002 by Yale University Press.)

Killing Pablo,
by Mark Bowden, published 2002 by Penguin Books.

The Mission,
by Dana Priest, published 2003 by W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.

Stumbling Bear—Soviet Military Performance in Afghanistan,
by Scott R. McMichael, published 1991 by Brassey’s.

Taliban,
by Ahmed Rashid, published 2001 by Yale University Press.

Weapons and Tactics of the Soviet Army,
by David C. Isby, published 1988 by Jane’s Publishing Company Limited.

NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICAL ARTICLES

“The ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’ has an Enemy: Politics,” by Michael Catanzaro, published October 1, 2001, in
The American Enterprise.

“The War’s Bloodiest Battle,” by Sean D. Naylor, published 18 March, 2002, in
Army Times.

“Intel Take From Enemy at Shah-e-Kot Great, MIs say,” by Sean D. Naylor, published 25 March, 2002, in
Army Times.

“In Shah-e-Kot, Apaches Save the Day—And Their Reputations,” by Sean D. Naylor, published 25 March, 2002, in
Army Times.

“Anaconda Winds Down,” by Sean D. Naylor, published 25 March, 2002, in
Army Times.

“Deadly Find,” by Sean D. Naylor, published 1 April, 2002, in
Army Times.

“In Search of Casualties,” by Sean D. Naylor, published 15 April, 2002, in
Army Times.

“What We Learned from Anaconda,” by Sean D. Naylor, published 29 July, 2002, in
Army Times.

“Pentagon Faces Transformation,” by Tom Bowman, published March 13, 2001, in
The Baltimore Sun.

“Al Qaida’s Uzbek Bodyguards,” by Owais Tohid, published September 28, 2004, in
The Christian Science Monitor.

“Wolfowitz: More Resources, Better Management Keys to Defense Transformation,” by Hunter Keeter, published August 9, 2001, in
Defense Daily.

“Left In Dark For Most Anaconda Planning, Air Force Opens New Probe,” by Elaine Grossman, published October 3, 2002, in
Inside The Pentagon.

“Losing the Peace?” by Michael Massing, published May 13, 2002, in
The Nation.

“A Different War—Is the Army Becoming Irrelevant?” by Peter J. Boyer, published July 1, 2002, in
The New Yorker.

“Special Forces OD Alpha-555,” by Lance M. Bacon, published September 2003 in
Soldier of Fortune.

“The Infiltrator: Ali Mohamed Served in the U.S. Army—and Bin Laden’s Circle,” by Peter Waldman, published November 26, 2001, in
The Wall Street Journal.

“Bravery and Breakdowns in a Ridgetop Battle,” by Bradley Graham, published May 24, 2002, in
The Washington Post.

“A Wintry Ordeal at 10,000 Feet,” by Bradley Graham, published May 25, 2002, in
The Washington Post.

“U.S. Concludes Bin Laden Escaped at Tora Bora Fight,” by Barton Gellman and Thomas E. Ricks, published April 17, 2002 in
The Washington Post.

OFFICIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENTS

Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy,
by Stephen Biddle, published November 2002 by the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

“Ali Mohamed: The Defendant Who Did Not Go to Trial,” by Judy Aita, published May 16, 2003, by U.S. Department of State International Information Programs; accessed on the Internet at http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/af/security/a1051502.htm.

The Army of Excellence—the Development of the 1980s Army,
by John L. Romjue, published 1993 by Office of the Command Historian, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.

“Afghanistan—Fire Support for Operation Anaconda,” by Robert H. McElroy, published September-October 2002 in
Field Artillery.

COMACC Sight Picture—Joint Air-Ground Operations (a December 2002 press release from the U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command).

Emerging Lessons, Insights and Observations—Operation Enduring Freedom,
published 2002 by the Center for Army Lessons Learned, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

“Enduring Freedom: An Air Force Combat Controller’s Experience,” briefing by Technical Sergeant James Hotaling, September 2002. Text accessed at http://www.afa.org/media/scripts/afsoc.pdf.

“Lessons Learned From A Light Infantry Company During Operation Anaconda,” by Captain Nelson G. Kraft, published Summer 2002 in
Infantry,
the official magazine of the U.S. Army Infantry Center and School, Fort Benning, Georgia.

Infantry Rifle Platoon and Squad
—Army Field Manual 7-8, published by the U.S. Army.

Information Operations
—Army Field Manual 100-6, published by the U.S. Army.

“Investigation Report for Suspected Friendly Fire Incident Involving AC-130 Spectre Gunship and U.S./Afghan Forces Near Gardez, On or About 02 March 02.” The Central Command investigation; redacted version released November 2002 and obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.

JSOTF-N Command Briefing, a PowerPoint slide briefing produced by Task Force Dagger.

“SIGINT Marines Help Fight War on Terrorism in Afghanistan,”
Intelligence Community Newsletter,
published February 2003 by Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Department.

“Texas14 Monogram of Activities in Support of Operation Enduring Freedom (12 October 2001–26 March 2002),” an unpublished paper by Captain Glenn Thomas.

“10
^thMountain Division Observations—Operation Enduring Freedom.”

“The Milani Report,” by Colonel Andrew N. Milani, the official U.S. Special Operations Command chronology of the Takur Ghar battle, released to me in heavily redacted form.

“Operation Anaconda,” briefing by Lieutenant Colonel Pete Blaber, given to many different military audiences.

“Operation Anaconda” CJTF Mountain Command Briefing.

“Operation Anaconda—CJTF Mountain C2 Plans,” a briefing by Major Francesca Ziemba.

Operation Anaconda: Command and Confusion in Joint Warfare,
an unpublished paper by Major Mark Davis, June 2004.

Operation Anaconda—Lessons for Joint Operations,
by Richard L. Kugler, Michael Baranick and Hans Binnendijk, published September 2003 by National Defense University, Washington, D.C.

Operations
—Army Field Manual 3-0, published by the U.S. Army.

Pitfalls of Technology: A Case Study of the Battle on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan,
an unpublished paper by Colonel Andrew N. Milani.

“Special Operations Forces in Operation Anaconda, 1-14 March 2002,” a briefing by Dr. Richard Stewart, U.S. Army Center of Military History.

“TF 1-187 IN AAR: Operation Anaconda,” unpublished “Memorandum for the Commander” dated March 21, 2002.

10
^thMountain Division (Light Infantry)—Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan,
Joint

Center for Lessons Learned Final Report, published June 6, 2003, by Joint Forces Command.

Victory in Papua,
by Samuel Milner, published 1957 by the Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the [U.S.] Army

Weapon of Choice—ARSOF in Afghanistan,
by Charles H. Briscoe, Richard L. Kiper, James A. Schroder, and Kalev I. Sepp, published 2004 by the Combat Studies Institute Press, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

INDEX

Abbott, Thomas

Achey, Stephen

Advance Force Operations.
See
AFO

Afghan Military Forces.
See
AMF

Afghanistan.
See also
Operation Anaconda; Al Qaida; Shahikot; Takur Ghar

Bagram in

Chechens in

Gardez in

Kabul in

Khowst in

Rasul in

Serkhankhel in

Tora Bora in

AFO (Advance Force Operations)

Air base, in Bagram

Al Y.

Alcaraz, Jorge

Allen, Brian

AMF (Afghan Military Forces)

awards for

Anderson, Loyd Blayne, Anderson, Marc

Andy

Antenori, Frank

Apaches

See also
Helicopters, in Operation Anaconda

ARCENT (Army Component of Central Command)

Ariana Hotel

Army Component of Central Command. See ARCENT

Ashline, Jason

Australians

Bagram air base in

as military headquarters

Operation Anaconda relating to

Ballard Sean

Baltazar, Frank

Bardwell, Chad

The Bear Went Over the Mountain
(Grau)

Beaudry, Earl, Jr.

Bello, Lou

Bennett, Sam

Bentley, Chris

bin Laden, Osama

Bishop, Craig

Blaber, Pete

in Operation Anaconda

in reconnaissance mission

Takur Ghar relating to

Blair, Brett

Blocking Positions

Amy

Betty

Cindy

Diane

Ginger

Heather

Bob H.

Bochain, Louis

Brault, Robert

Brian

Briley, Jasey

Brossoie, James

Brown, Gabe

Browning, Charles “Todd,”

Burke Ed

Burns, Julian

Bush, George W.

Busko, Rick

Butler, Kevin

in Operation Anaconda

at Takur Ghar

Byrne, Thomas “Doc,”

Calland, Albert

Canon, Arin

CAOC (Combined Air Operations Center)

Carr, Bob

Carwazi

Casenhiser, Caleb

Celano, Justin

CENTCOM (U.S. Central Command)

Central Intelligence Agency.
See
CIA

CFACC (Coalition Forces Air Component Command)

CFLCC (Coalition Forces Land Component Command)

Edwards in

Mikolashek in

Chapman, Dan

Chapman, John

death of

in Operation Anaconda

Chechens

Chenault, Rich

Chuck

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

Operation Anaconda and

reconnaissance mission and

“Spider” in

Takur Ghar and

Cifers, Mike

CJTF (Coalition and Joint Task Force) Mountain.
See
Task Force Mountain

Clark, Perry

Clark, Wesley

Coalition Forces Air Component Command.
See
CFACC

Coalition Forces Land Component Command.
See
CFLCC

Cody, Richard

Combined Air Operations Center.
See
CAOC

Commons, Matt

Contant, Stu

Corkran Ron

Corley, John

Crombie, Roger

Crose, Brad

Cunningham, Jason

Dailey, Dell

Daniel, Cory

Dave

Dave H.

Deane, John

Deaths

of Chapman, J.

of Harriman

of Roberts

Dedo, David

Delta Force.
See also
India team; Juliet team

Blaber in

“Major Jimmy” in

in Operation Anaconda

reconnaissance mission and

“Speedy” in

Takur Ghar and

DePouli, Ray

DevGru

Don

Donnelly, Pete

Dupuy, Trevor

Edwards, Matthew

Edwards, Warren

Egerer, Fred

Ewadzkhal Valley

Fichter, Jeff

Finch, Thomas

Fletcher, Tim

“Force cap,”

Franks, Tommy as

CENTCOM commander,

Operation Anaconda and

Tora Bora and

Freedom of Information Act,

Gardez

Operation Anaconda relating to

reconnaissance mission relating to

safe house in

Task Force Dagger in

Gibler, Michael

Gilliam, David, Glenn P.

Golden, Maurice

Goody (Mike)

Grau, Lester

Gray, David

Gray Fox

in Operation Anaconda

in reconnaissance mission

Greg

Grim

Grippe, Frank

Grooms, Christopher

Gurgel, Jonathan

Guthrie, Bill

Haas, Chris

Hagenbeck, Franklin “Buster,”

Haidar, Gul

Halfpipe, battle of

Hall, Brandon

Hall, Jay

Hamilton, John

Hans

Hardy, Jim

Harrell, Gary

Harriman, Stanley

death of

in Operation Anaconda

Harry, Chris

Harward, Robert, Haupt, Eric

Hazrat, Ali

Helberg, Glen

Helicopters, in Operation Anaconda

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