First published 2019
In summer 2014, three years after full troop withdrawal from Iraq, President Obama sends a small task force back to Baghdad. Their goal: protect the Iraqi capital and U.S. embassy from ISIS, a brutal terrorist organization that has declared itself a Caliphate across northwest Iraq and northeast Syria. What unfolds is a massive American military response unlike any previous conflict. The story moves between Strike Cell operations centers, where enemies are tracked and eliminated around the clock, and the battlefield experiences of Special Operations Joint Terminal Attack Controllers who rack up the highest enemy kill counts in combat. A JTAC and commanding general provide firsthand accounts of the unprecedented methodology and advanced military technology that defined this war. Through their eyes, readers witness the senior military and political decisions that shaped America's fight against what they call the most savage insurgency in history.
Genres: military-fiction, action, non-fiction, military-history
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-allies, military-strategy
Setting: Baghdad, Iraq, Syria
Period: 2014
Audiobook · Tantor Audio
Content warnings: graphic-violence, war