Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs, and Operations in the 9/11 World
, by William M. Arkin (Hanover, N.H.: Steerforth, 2005).Combat Swimmer: Memoirs of a Navy SEAL
, by Captain Robert A. Gormly, USN (Ret.) (New York: Dutton, 1998).The Command
, an e-book by Marc Ambinder and D. B. Grady (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2012).The Commandos: The Inside Story of America’s Secret Soldiers
, by Douglas C. Waller (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994).Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda
, by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker (New York: Times Books, 2011).Crippled Eagle: A Historical Perspective on U.S. Special Operations, 1976–1996
, by Rod Lenahan (Charleston, S.C.: Narwhal, 1998).The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
, by Jane Mayer (New York: Doubleday, 2008).Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry
, by Marc Ambinder and D. B. Grady (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2013).Defusing Armageddon: Inside NEST, America’s Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad
, by Jeffrey T. Richelson (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008).Delta Force
, by Col. Charlie Beckwith (Ret.) (New York: Avon, 2000).Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
, by Jeremy Scahill (New York: Nation Books, 2013).The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
, by Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor (New York: Pantheon, 2012).Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
, by Thomas E. Ricks (New York: Penguin, 2006).The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden
, by Mark Bowden (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012).First In: An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
, by Gary C. Schroen (New York: Presidio, 2005).Ghost Wars
, by Steve Coll (New York: Penguin, 2004).Growing Up bin Laden: Osama’s Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
, by Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009).Guests of the Ayatollah
, by Mark Bowden (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006).Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God
, by Matthew Levitt (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2013).High-Value Target: Countering Al Qaeda in Yemen
, by Amb. Edmund J. Hull (Ret.) (Dulles, Va.: Potomac, 2011).The Human Factor
, by Ishmael Jones (New York: Encounter, 2008).Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL
Team Six
, by Jessica Buchanan and Erik Landemalm with Anthony Flacco (New York: Atria, 2013).In My Time
, by Dick Cheney (New York: Threshold, 2011).Inside Delta Force
, by Eric L. Haney (New York: Dell, 2003).Intelligence Wars: Lessons from Baghdad
, by Steven K. O’Hern (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2008).Jawbreaker
, by Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo (New York: Crown, 2005).Kill bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander’s Account of the Hunt for the World’s Most Wanted Man
, by Dalton Fury (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008).Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America’s Most Secret Special Operations Team
, by Michael Smith (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2006).Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw
, by Mark Bowden (New York: Penguin, 2001).Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency
, by Daniel Klaidman (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012).