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Briscoe, Charles H., and Richard L. Kiper.
U.S. Army Special Operations in Afghanistan
. Boulder: Paladin Press, 2006.

Chandrasekaran, Rajiv.
Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan
. New York: Random House, 2012.

Connable, Ben, and Martin C. Libicki.
How Insurgencies End
. RAND Corporation Monograph Series. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2010.

Felbab-Brown, Vanda.
Aspiration and Ambivalence: Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan
. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2012.

Fishel, John, and Max Manwaring.
Uncomfortable Wars Revisited
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.

Frederick, Jim.
Special Ops: The Hidden World of America’s Toughest Warriors
. New York: Time Books, 2011.

Fury, Dalton.
Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander’s Account of the Hunt for the World’s Most Wanted Man
. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2011.

Gerges, Fawaz A.
The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Giustozzi, Antonio.
Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan, 2002–2007
. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

Jalali, Ali Ahmad, and Lester W. Grau.
The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War
. Reprint, Kirkland, WA: Tales End Press, 2012.

Jones, Seth G.
Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
. RAND Counterinsurgency Study, vol. 4. Santa Monica, CA: RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2008.

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Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of Al Qa’ida Since 9/11
. New York: W. W. Norton, 2012.

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In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan
. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010.

Jones, Seth G., and Arturo Munoz.
Afghanistan’s Local War: Building Local Defense Forces
. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2010.

Kelly, Terrence K., Nora Bensahel, and Olga Oliker.
Security Force Assistance in Afghanistan: Identifying Lessons for Future Efforts
. RAND Corporation Monograph Series. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2011.

Kilcullen, David.
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Long, Austin, Stephanie Pezard, Bryce Loidolt, and Todd C. Helmus.
Locals Rule: Historical Lessons for Creating Local Defense Forces for Afghanistan and Beyond
. Santa Monica, CA: RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2012.

Luttrell, Marcus.
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
. New York: Little, Brown, 2007.

Maurer, Kevin.
Gentlemen Bastards: On the Ground in Afghanistan with America’s Elite Special Forces
. New York: Berkley Books, 2012.

McChrystal, Stanley A.
My Share of the Task: A Memoir
. New York: Portfolio, 2013.

McRaven, William H.
Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare. Theory and Practice
. New York: Presidio Press, 1996.

Naylor, Sean.
Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda
. New York: Berkley, 2005.

Owen, Mark, and Kevin Maurer.
No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL
. New York: Dutton, 2012.

Phillips, William R.
Night of the Silver Stars: The Battle of Lang Vei
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.

Rabasa, Angel, John Gordon IV, Peter Chalk, Audra K. Grant, K. Scott McMahon, Stephanie Pezard, Caroline Reilly, David Ucko, S. Rebecca Zimmerman.
From Insurgency to Stability
, vol. 2,
Insights from Selected Case Studies
. RAND Corporation Monograph Series. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2011.

Rashid, Ahmed.
Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
. New York: Penguin, 2009.

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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
, 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.

Robinson, Linda.
Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces
. New York: PublicAffairs Books, 2004.

Rothstein, Hy S.
Afghanistan and the Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006.

Sanger, David.
Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power
. New York: Crown, 2012.

Scahill, Jeremy.
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
. New York: Nation Books, 2013.

Schmitt, Eric, and Thom Shanker.
Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda
. New York: Times Books, 2011.

Schroen, Gary C.
First In: An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
. New York: Presidio Press/Ballantine Books, 2007.

Stanton, Doug.
Horse Soldiers: A True Story of Modern War
. New York: Little, Brown, 2005.

Tucker, David, and Christopher J. Lamb.
United States Special Operations Forces
. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

Wasdin, Howard E., and Stephen Templin.
SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2011.

West, Bing.
The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy and the Way Out of Afghanistan
. New York: Random House, 2012.

Woodward, Bob.
Obama’s Wars
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011.

Wright, Donald P., with the Combat Operations Studies Team.
A Different Kind of War: The United States Army in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), October 2001–September 2005
. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2010.

Zaeef, Abdul Salam.
My Life with the Taliban
. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.

OTHER SOURCES

Bolduc, Donald C. “Forecasting the Future of Afghanistan.”
Special Warfare
24, no. 4 (2011): 22–28.

Chesser, Susan. “Afghanistan Casualties: Military Forces and Civilians.” Congressional Research Service, February 3, 2011.

Clark, Stephen A. “Investigation into the Incident in Vicinity of the Salala Checkpoint on the Night of 25–26 Nov 2011,” December 18, 2011. United States Central Command. Available at www.centcom.mil/images/stories/Crossborder/report%20exsum%20further%20redacted.pdf.

Feickert, Andrew. “U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress.” Congressional Research Service, February 6, 2013.

Fridovich, David P., and Fred T. Krawchuk, “Winning in the Pacific: The Special Operations Forces Indirect Approach.”
Joint Force Quarterly
, no. 44 (2007): 24–27.

Human Rights Watch.
“Just Don’t Call It a Militia”: Impunity, Militias, and the “Afghan Local Police.”
New York: Human Rights Watch, 2011. Available at www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/afghanistan0911webwcover.pdf.

Jones, Seth G. “Reintegrating Afghan Insurgents.” Occasional Paper OP-327-MCIA. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2011.

Lambert, Geoffrey, Larry Lewis, and Sarah Sewall. “Operation Enduring Freedom–Philippines: Civilian Harm and the Indirect Approach.”
Prism
3, no. 5 (2012): 117–135.

Lefèvre, Mathieu. “Local Defence in Afghanistan: A Review of Government-Backed Initiatives.” Afghanistan Analysts Network, 2010. Available at http://aan-afghanistan.com/index.asp?id=763.

Malkasian, Carter, and J. Kael Weston. “War Downsized: How to Accomplish More with Less.”
Foreign Affairs
91, no. 2 (2012): 111–121.

Marrs, James R. “Findings and Recommendations of AR 15-6 Investigation: Credibility Assessment of Allegations of Human Rights Violations Appearing in a Human Rights Watch Report.” USFOR-A-DJ2. United States Forces–Afghanistan, 2011.

Maxwell, David S. Statement to the House Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. Hearing on Understanding Future Irregular Warfare Challenges, March 27, 2012.

McRaven, William H. Statement to the House Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. Hearing on the Future of Special Operations Forces, September 22, 2011.

———. United States Special Operations Command Posture Statement to the Senate, Armed Services Committee, March 6, 2012.

Olson, Eric T. “U.S. Special Operations: Context and Capabilities in Irregular Warfare.”
Joint Force Quarterly
, no. 56 (2010): 64–70.

Robinson, Linda. “The Future of Special Operations: Beyond Kill and Capture.”
Foreign Affairs
, November/December 2012, 110–122.

———. “The Future of Special Operations Forces.” Council Special Report No. 66. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2013.

———. Statement to the House Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. Hearing on the Future of Special Operations Forces, July 11, 2012.

Shurkin, Michael Robert. “Subnational Government in Afghanistan.” Occasional Paper OP-318-MCIA. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2011.

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Afghanistan: Annual Report 2012. Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict
. Kabul: United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), 2013.

U.S. Army Doctrinal Publication 3-05. Special Operations
. Washington, DC: US Department of the Army, 2012.

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. Vietnam Studies. CMH Publication 90-23. Washington, DC: United States Army Center of Military History, 1989 [1973].

US Department of Defense.
Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan
. Report to Congress in accordance with section 1230 of the National Defense Authorization Act. Washington, DC: US Department of Defense, 2009–2012.

“U.S. Special Operations Command Fact Book 2012.” Tampa, FL: US Special Operations Command, 2012.

Wilder, Andrew R. “Cops or Robbers? The Struggle to Reform the Afghan National Police.” Issues Paper Series. Kabul: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2007.

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