Drone warrior : an elite soldier's inside account of the hunt for America's most dangerous enemies /
Brett Velicovich and Christopher S. Stewart.
- First edition.
- xiii, 318 pages ; 24 cm.
Should we kill him? -- Where were you when the world stopped? -- New guy -- Camp pizza hut -- Spy game -- The shitbox/garbage city -- The door at the end of the hall -- Day zero -- The drone war begins -- The hunters -- My first kill -- Finding a groove -- Wild goose chases -- Home? -- The boys are back in town -- The Saudi -- The kidnapping -- The bombing -- Dark horse -- Manhattan and Brooklyn -- Dogs of war -- The one who got away -- Gone -- Life outside the box -- A new beginning.
For nearly a decade, Brett Velicovich was at the center of America's new warfare: using unmanned aerial vehicles -- drones -- to take down the world's deadliest terrorists across the globe. One of an elite handful in the entire military with the authority to select targets and issue death orders, he worked in concert with the full human and technological network of American intelligence -- assets, analysts, spies, informants -- and the military's elite operatives, to stalk, capture, and eliminate high value targets in al-Qaeda and ISIS.
9780062693938
2018302097
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