equipment of
intelligence on
9/11 terrorist attacks
observation posts of
prisoners
Rumsfeld, Donald
Shelter Now International hostage crisis
Spin Ghar Mountains (Afghanistan)
surrender
tanks
Tora Bora, Battle of
Tora Bora Mountains, Afghanistan
Towr Ghar Mountains (Afghanistan)
Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)
Al Qaeda Martyr Memorial (Tora Bora, Afghanistan)
Al Qaeda’s Great Escape (Smucker)
American Indians
ammunition
supply problems
Tora Bora, Battle of
Anderson, Bruce
AN-PEQ2 laser
AN/PVS-5 night vision goggles (NVGs)
ANVS-9 night vision goggles (NVGs)
Arabic. See also language skills
Ashley, Jake
assessment process, Delta Force
Atef, Mohammed
Baader-Meinhof gang (Germany)
Badr, Battle of
Bagram Air Base (Afghanistan)
Afghanistan operations
supply problems
Tora Bora, Battle of
Balkans, Delta Force operations in
bandits, Afghanistan
Band of Brothers (film)
Bargewell, Eldon
beards, Delta Force
Beckwith, Charlie
Belvoir, Fort (Virginia)
Benning, Fort (Georgia)
Bergen, Peter
Berntsen, Gary
B-52 bomber
Bierce, Ambrose
bin Laden, Mohammed
bin Laden, Usama. See also al Qaeda; Taliban
Ahmed, Gul
Ali, Hazret (Pashai warlord)
BLU-82 bomb (Daisy Cutter)
capture rumor
Daruna, Afghanistan
deception plan for
Delta Force mission
disposition of
escape of
expectations of
intelligence on
last will and testament of
life and death decision
media
mujahideen
popular support for
reward for
Sudan
Tora Bora, Battle of
Tora Bora Mountains (Afghanistan)
United States and
Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)
bin Laden, Uthman
Blaber, Pete
Blackfeet people
Blackhawk Down (film)
Black Sea, Battle of (Somalia, 1993)
BLU-82 bomb (Daisy Cutter)
B-Monkey. See Bryan (code named B-Monkey)
bombs, unexploded
B-1 bomber
Bosnia. See also Balkans
Bradley fighting vehicle
Bragg, Fort (North Carolina)
Bravo Team
British intelligence
British Royal Marine commandos
British SBS commandos
British Special Air Service (SAS) commandos (U.K.)
British Special Boat Service (SBS, U.K.)
Bryan (code named B-Monkey)
bureaucracy, politics. See also military establishment; politics
Bush, George W.
9/11 terrorist attacks
Tora Bora, Battle of
Bushnell reflex HOLOsights
Cambone, Steven
Canada
capability exercises (CAPEXs), Delta Force
CAPEXs (capability exercises), Delta Force
capture rumor, bin Laden, Usama
Carlson, William
casualties
al Qaeda
civilian
Engagement Zones (EZ)
Kolokhel, Afghanistan
Tora Bora, Battle of (Afghanistan)
CBU-78 Gator mines
CENTCOM
Spin Ghar Mountains (Afghanistan)
Tora Bora, Battle of
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). See also actionable intelligence; HUMINT; intelligence
Afghanistan
Ahmed, Gul mission
Al (Special Forces officer assigned to CIA)
Ali, Hazret (warlord)
al Qaeda casualties
bin Laden, Usama
BLU-82 bomb (Daisy Cutter)
Delta Force
George (agent)
Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan
language skills
members of
money
munitions
Predator (drone aircraft)
Shelter Now International hostage crisis
Spin Ghar Mountains (Afghanistan)
Sudan
Tora Bora, Battle of
Tora Bora Mountains attack
Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun
warlord)
checkpoints
Ahmed, Gul mission
Balkan mission
Northern Alliance
Tora Bora, Battle of
Cheney, Dick
CH-47 helicopter
civilian casualties. See also casualties
Engagement Zones (EZ)
Kolokhel, Afghanistan
Clancy, Tom
Clarke, Richard
Clarke, Torie
Clinton, William J.
Clinton administration, Delta Force
close-quarter combat (CQB), Delta Force
Coalition Air Operations Center (CAOC)
Cobra II (Gordon and Trainor)
Combat Shooting and Tactics Inc.
Combat Talon aircraft
Combined Arms and Services Staff School
Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force
Command and General Staff College
communications
9/11 terrorist attacks. See also intelligence
conditioning exercises, Delta Force
costs, Tora Bora, Battle of
CQB light
Crapshoot (assault team leader)
Cruise, Tom
C-17 Globemaster (aircraft)
Dailey, Dell
Daisy Cutter (BLU-82 bomb)
Dari language
Daruna, Afghanistan
Dayton Peace Accords
deception plan, Afghanistan mission
Delphi method, Delta Force
Delta Force. See also Tora Bora, Battle of (Afghanistan)
activities of
Afghanistan mission
Ahmed, Gul mission
air force special tactics combat control
Ali, Hazret (warlord)
Balkan operations
beards
bin Laden, Usama
capability exercises (CAPEXs)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
conditioning exercises
Dailey, Dell
deployment decisions
equipment of
evaluation for potential service process
frustration in
Fury, Dalton (Redfly)
Iran hostage crisis
Iraq War
life and death decision
media
members of
mujahideen
Murdock, Gus
observation posts
officers of
Omar, Mullah Muhammad, raid on
organizational model
planning by
popularity of
qualifications for, ix
readiness of
reconnaissance
secrecy and
selection and assessment process in
Shelter Now International hostage crisis
snipers
Sudan
supply problems
tactics of
Tora Bora, Battle of
training for
uniform of
urban reconnaissance
Delta Force (Beckwith)
desert camouflage fatigues
Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991)
The Devil’s Dictionary (Bierce)
Downing, Wayne
driving skills
drug kingpins
DShK-38 12.7mm heavy machine guns and 82mm mortar tubes
Dugan (sniper)
Durant, Mike
Du-Saraka, Afghanistan
ear protection
Eastern Alliance Opposition Group
organization of
supplies for
Egypt
Eliot, T. S.
Engagement Zones (EZ), Tora Bora, Battle of
escape, of bin Laden, Usama
Escobar, Pablo
espionage. See also Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); intelligence
Ahmed, Gul mission
language skills
Euripides
evaluation for potential service process, Delta Force
Farsi
F-18 aircraft
First In (Shroen) 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment (Delta Force). See Delta Force
flash-bang stun grenades
flex cuffs
Floyd, Brandon
food tasting
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Fort Benning, Georgia
Fort Bragg, North Carolina
France
Frankfurt, Germany
friendly fire
bombing
mujahideen
Tora Bora, Battle of
uniforms
Fury, Dalton (Redfly)
Ali, Hazret (Pashai warlord)
army enlistment
Balkan operations
childhood of
Delta Force
education
leadership
promotion of
Fusion Cell
Garmin global positioning system
GATOR mines
Genghis Khan (Mongol emperor)
George (CIA agent)
Gere, Richard
Germany
Ghulbihar (aide)
global positioning system (GPS). See also specific systems
GlobalStar satellite telephone
Globemaster (aircraft)
Glock sidearm
Gordon, Michael
Green Berets
Afghanistan operations
Ali, Hazret (warlord)
Balkan operations
Delta Force
mujahideen
Spin Ghar Mountains (Afghanistan)
terminal guidance operations
Tora Bora, Battle of
uniforms
Grenada, United States invasion of
grenades
Grinch (Jim). See Jim (MSS Grinch)
Grinch (Jim), Ahmed, Gul operation
Gritz, James “Bo,” 30-31
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
Haji Musa
Haney, Eric
Hard Rock Café (Washington, D. C.)
Harrell, Gary
hashish
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin
helicopters
bin Laden, Usama escape
evacuation
landing zones for
MH-47 Chinook helicopter
Soviet Union
supply problems
Tora Bora Mountains
helmets
Herodotus
Hezb-e-Islami (militant group)
Hindu Kush Mountains (Afghanistan)
H &K G3 assault rifle
HOLOsights
Hopper (recce team leader)
Horrigan knives
Hot Wash
Howe, Paul
HUMINT. See also actionable intelligence; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); intelligence
Ahmed, Gul
bin Laden, Usama
Hung Ho magazine
Hunt, David, ix-x
The Hunt for Bin Laden (Moore)
Hunting the Jackal (Waugh)
Hussein, Saddam
Hutmacher, Clay
improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
India Team
infrared pointers
Inside Delta Force (Haney)
intelligence. See also actionable intelligence; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); HUMINT
actionable
Afghanistan mission
al Qaeda
bin Laden, Usama
British
espionage
proactive military stance
Shelter Now International hostage crisis
Tora Bora Mountains, Afghanistan
war criminals
weapons of mass destruction
Zawahiri, Ayman al-
intermediate staging base (ISB), Afghanistan
mission
Inter-Service Intelligence (Pakistan)
In the Company of Heroes (Durant)
IPTAL infrared laser
Iran hostage crisis
Iraq War
Delta Force
Haditha Dam raid
media
Murdock, Gus
proactive military stance
Silver Stars
Ironhead (squadron sergeant major)
Israel
Izlid infrared marking laser
Jackal Team
Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Ali, Hazret (Pashai warlord)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
journey to
policing of
Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)
Jawbreaker (Berntsen). See also Team Jawbreaker Juliet (CIA point group)
Jay-C
JDAMs
Jester (sniper)
Jim (MSS Grinch)
Johnson, Billy “White Shoes,” 31
Joint Commission Observer teams, Balkan
operations
Joint Intelligence Agency Task Force
Joint Interrogation Facility (Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan)
Joint Operations Command (JOC)
Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)
(Advance Force Operations)
Joint Special Operations Task Force
Jordan
Kabul, Afghanistan
Central Intelligence Agency
Shelter Now International hostage crisis
Kandahar, Afghanistan
Kandahar, Afghanistan airport
Karzai, Hamid
Kevlar helmets
Khan, Adam (CIA agent)
Khost, Afghanistan
Khyber Pass (Afghanistan)
Killer Elite (Smith)
Kilo Team
Kipling, Rudyard
Kolokhel, Afghanistan
Lamb, Christopher
Lamb, Kyle
language skills. See also specific languages
Central Intelligence Agency
Delta Force
espionage
intelligence
Russian
Laos, prisoners of war
last will and testament, of bin Laden, Usama
leadership
Delta Force
Fury, Dalton (Redfly)
Leebaert, Derek
Leonidas (king of Sparta)
life and death decision
Delta Force
proactive military stance
London Spectator (English newspaper)
MacDill Air Force Base (Hillsborough County, Florida)
The Man Who Would Be King (Kipling)
map case
maps
Hindu Kush Mountains (Afghanistan)
inadequacy of
mujahideen
reconnaissance
Tora Bora, Battle of
Marine Corps (U.S.)
Martinet, Jean
Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan
MC-130 Combat Talon aircraft
Meadows, Dick
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
media
Ali, Hazret (Pashai warlord)
bin Laden, Usama
BLU-82 bomb (Daisy Cutter)
Delta Force
Iraq War
Press Pool Ridge
Tora Bora, Battle of
Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)
medical kits
M-4 assault rifles
MH-47 Chinook helicopter
MIG fighter aircraft
MilCAM Recon thermal sight
military establishment. See also bureaucracy; politics
army
Delta Force deployment
proactive stance
mini video camera, espionage
Minutemen (U.S. revolutionary war)
MK-82 bomb
MK-7 laser range finder
M-1911 sidearm
mobile support site (MSS)
Modelo Prison (Panama City, Panama)
Mogadishu, Somalia
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh
money, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Monkey. See Bryan (code named B-Monkey)
Moore, Robin
Mosul, Iraq
MP5 submachine gun
M-72 LAW rockets
M-16 rifle
MSS Monkey. See Bryan (code named B-Monkey)
M-240 machine guns
M-249 squad automatic weapons
Muhammad (prophet)
mujahideen. See also Ali, Hazret (Pashai warlord); Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)
Afghanistan mission
al Qaeda prisoners
bin Laden, Usama
BLU-82 bomb (Daisy Cutter)
combat practices
Delta Force
friendly fire
Green Berets
Mulholland, John
night vision goggles (NVGs)
politics
Ramadan
Soviet Union and
supplies for
Taliban
tanks
Tora Bora, Battle of
Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)
Mulholland, John
Murdock, Gus
Muse, Kurt
Musharraf, Pervez
Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
bin Laden, Usama
Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)
National Guard
National Security Strategy (report)
Native Americans
Navy SEALs
Naylor, Sean
Newsweek magazine
Night Stalkers (Durant)
night vision goggles (NVGs)
9/11 terrorist attacks
Northern Advance Force Operations (NAFO)
Northern Alliance
checkpoints
Kabul, Afghanistan
Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan
supplies for
Taliban
Northwest Frontier Province (Pakistan)
Not a Good Day to Die (Naylor)
Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
observation posts
al Qaeda
Delta Force
Tora Bora, Battle of (Afghanistan)
Omar, Mullah Muhammad
Delta Force raid on
hunt for
intelligence on
101st Airborne Division
173rd Airborne Combat Brigade
The One Percent Solution (Suskind)
Operation Acid Gambit
Operation Eagle Claw (Iran hostage crisis)
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom. See also Iraq War
opium farming
ordnance, unexploded