Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund

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Format: 1 online resource (324 pages)

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 1-61200-878-X

Note: Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- The Bottom Line -- Note Regarding Organization and Text -- Part 1: Creation of the Force and Development of a Rescue Plan -- In the Beginning -- November 1980 -- The Office -- Staff Selection -- The New General -- Charlie Charges -- OPSEC Infinitum -- Rules-We Got Lots of Rules -- Our Most Valuable Resource -- The Problem -- Key Questions -- The Book -- Mobility Assets and Force Selection -- Entebbe -- The Agency Men -- Who Are We Fighting Here? -- Myth and Reality -- All Ideas Welcome -- The Daily Media Feed -- Letters, We Get Letters, Stacks and Stacks of Letters -- The Truck Option -- TIR in Tears -- Carcasses-Frozen and Otherwise -- The Base Force -- Help Wanted! Driver, Knows Tehran and Speaks Farsi -- Inside an RH-53 -- A Typical Day -- Graphics -- Maps -- The Tank -- Clandestine Committees -- Part of the Problem -- Gas! -- Ground Planners -- Feed the Troops -- Eyes on the Target -- Scouts Out -- Prize Package -- Two Sergeants -- No Guts-No Glory -- The Chairman As Action Officer -- Penetration, However Slight -- The Shrink -- Ego and Evolution -- Charlie and the Rangers -- Rangers Lead the Way and Sometimes Follow -- Getting There Is Half the Fun -- Plan B-For Desert One -- Selecting Desert One -- The Photo Interpreter -- Developing Plan B -- Panic City -- Freedom of the Skies -- The Hide Site -- An Important Event -- The Light Data -- A Plan Emerges -- The Plan -- Part 2: Training and Adjusting -- Converting Ideas into Reality -- Where Do We Play? -- The Training Concept -- The Planners' Selection Process -- Visitation Rights -- Air Taxi Please -- Civil Servant -- Flying Leathernecks -- Heaven -- Cotton Gin Rendezvous -- Hungry Wolves -- Port-A-Potty Pilots -- Blivits -- A Better Idea -- The Pilot -- The Navigator -- The Sergeant -- Silver Bird. , Mr. Wonderful -- The Wall -- The Midnight Massacre -- Finding Pilots -- A Matter of Money -- Thanksgiving Surprise -- Visit to the Nimitz- Disappointment One-December -- Slippage-Disappointment Two -- Navy Pictures -- The General Was Vaught -- Two Brave Men -- Pierre and the Pause -- Part 3: Execution and Events -- The Oval Office -- Cash and Carry -- Small Miracles -- Pallets -- Waiting and Wondering -- A Mistake -- Responsibility -- Disappointment Three -- Nimitz Issues -- Demarche -- General Vaught's Office -- The Carrier -- The Combat Information Center -- Relative Value -- The AGI -- The Sea -- The Audience -- My Kingdom for a Cook -- FLIR -- Flying the Hood -- Desert Crossroad -- Rationality -- The Timing Map -- The Mishap -- Report from Air Mobility Command -- The Request -- The Bunker -- The Retrograde -- Later -- Where Is Fred? -- A Royal Debt -- Part 4: Aftermath and the Path Forward -- The Face of the Enemy -- Hammer Captures POTUS -- Homecoming -- Reflections and Conjecture -- The Phoenix Rises from the Ashes-Barely -- No Greater Love -- Part 5: Congress 1: Bureaucracy 0 The Nation Wins and SOF Becomes a Capable Force -- Introduction -- Project Honey Badger: In the Beginning -- How SOF Got Started on a Very Rocky Road -- Part 6: The Strategic Services Command Proposal -- The Problem Begins -- The Vision -- Form of Conflict -- The Proposal -- The Proposal Fails -- Part 7: How We Got to Osama Bin Laden -- The Requirements Continue -- Evolution and Revolution -- Failed Operations and Missed Opportunities -- The Battle Joined -- The Pentagon-Action and Reaction -- The Law -- Let the Games Begin -- Epilogue-The Irony of it All -- From the Phoenix to the Product -- Appendix A SOF Chronology -- Appendix B Joint Task Force Organization -- Appendix C Eagle Claw: What Happened -- Appendix D FOG. , Appendix E Memo to General Meyer Ref Joint SOF Airlift Procurement -- Appendix F Declassified -- F.1: Initial Planning Paper -- F.2: Diamonds and Rectangles -- F.3: Help Wanted -- F.4: Gas -- F.5: Operational SitRep -- F.6: The Final Solution -- F.7: The Plan -- F.8: We Go -- F.9: The Mishap -- F.10: Going Forward -- Glossary -- Also available by Keith Nightingale.

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-61200-877-1

Language: English