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102 days of war : how Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda & the Taliban survived 2001 / Yaniv Barzilai : foreword by Bruce Riedel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barzilai, Yaniv, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011.
- Bin Laden, Osama.
- Taliban.
- Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001-2014.
- Tora Bora, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2001.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- National security--United States--Decision making.
- National security.
- Command of troops--Case studies.
- Command of troops.
- Afghanistan--History, Military--21st century.
- Afghanistan.
- United States--History, Military--21st century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using a broad array of sources, including interviews with top-level U.S. officials at every level of the war effort, Barzilai concludes that the failure to kill bin Laden and destroy al Qaeda at the Battle of Tora Bora was not only the result of a failure in tactics but, more importantly, the product of failures in policy and leadership.
- Contents:
- The lion's den
- Scrambling to respond
- Preparing for war
- A slow start
- The strategic void
- Dominoes
- Distractions
- A battle won and a war lost
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Sources and methodology.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-159)and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61234-534-4
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