Inside CentCom: The Unvarnished Truth About The Wars In Afghanistan And Iraq
Only two men on earth have the insider knowledge about what really happened at the highest levels of our government and military from September 11, 2001, through the fall of Saddam Hussein's notorious dictatorship in Iraq.One of these men is Army General Tommy Franks. The other is Marine Corps General Mike "Rifle" DeLong, Franks's deputy.General DeLong was Donald Rumsfeld's "answer man" during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He assembled and held together the international coalitions for the War on Terror and the war against Saddam Hussein. And while Franks was in the field, former Marine combat pilot DeLong ran CentCom, the nerve center of both wars.In Inside CentCom, you'll learn what only insiders have known up to now:* How President Bush had a chance to take out Saddam and his sons before the war-and why he chose not to* How the idea of invading Iraq came up as early as September 11, 2001* The likely hiding place of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction-yes, they do exist* Al-Qaeda and Saddam: why CentCom believes they are co-conspirators* Why CentCom knew in advance that the United Nations would never approve military action against Iraq-and why the war was justified* Why chaos in Iraq was greater than predicted-and the mistakes that contributed to it* The failure of Ahmad Chalabi's alleged Iraqi "freedom fighters" as American alliesInside CentCom takes you inside the center of American defense intelligence and war planning for the greater Middle East. You'll go behind the scenes on the stealth operations leading up to the Afghan and Iraq wars, and then read the after-action report from today's Iraq. This is an unmissable book about the wars we have already won-the first steps in winning the War on Terror.