In America's battle against al-Qaeda and their allies, the goal of
the Navy SEALs is to be the best guns in the fight--stealthy,
effective, professional, and lethal. Here for the first time is a
SEAL insider's battle history of these Special Operations warriors
in the war on terrorism.
"Down range" is what SEALs in Afghanistan and Iraq call their area
of operations. In this new mode of warfare, "down range" can refer
to anything from tracking roving bands of al-Qaeda on a remote
mountain trail in Afghanistan to taking down an armed compound in
Tikrit and rousting holdouts from Saddam Hussein's regime. It could
mean interdicting insurgents smuggling car-bomb explosives over the
Iraqi-Syrian border or silently boarding a freighter on the high
seas at night to enforce an embargo. In other words, "down range"
could be anywhere, anytime, under any conditions.
In "Down Range," author Dick Couch, himself a former Navy SEAL and
CIA case officer, uses his unprecedented access to bring the reader
firsthand accounts from the warriors in combat during key missions
in Afghanistan and Iraq. Couch creates a pulse-pounding, detailed
narrative of the definitive engagements of this war, while painting
an unusually intimate portrait of these warriors in the field. The
performance of the SEALs in difficult, changing environments--in
the heat of the Afghan desert, in the snow-packed Hindu Kush, on
the high seas, and in the urban chaos of Baghdad--has been nothing
short of extraordinary. The SEALs, coordinating with other American
forces, the CIA, and foreign special operations units like the
Polish GROM, have once more shown their genius for improvisation
and capacity for courageous action in leading the fight against
this new and vicious enemy.
The first battle history of its kind, "Down Range" is a riveting
close-up of some of America's finest warriors in action against a
deadly foe.
Also available as an eBook
"From the Hardcover edition."
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