Outpost An Untold Story of American Valor

Name: Outpost An Untold Story of American Valor
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ISBN: 9780316185400

ISBN-10: 031618540X

ISBN-13: 9780316185400

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jake Tapper

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At 5:58 AM on October 3rd, 2009, Compound Outpost Keating, located in frighteningly vulnerable terrain in Afghanistan just 14 miles from the Pakistani border, was viciously attacked. Though the 53 Americans there prevailed against nearly 400 Taliban fighters, their casualties made it the deadliest fight of the war for the U.S. that year. Four months after the battle, a Pentagon review revealed that there was no reason for the troops at Keating to have been there in the first place.In THE OUTPOST, Jake Tapper gives us the powerful saga of COP Keating, from its establishment to eventual destruction, introducing us to an unforgettable cast of soldiers and their families, and to a place and war…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 10/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Map


Author's Note


Prologue: Focus



"With Your Shield or on It"


Roll Call: 3-71 Cav and Others



Every Man an Alexander



"Major Joe Fenty, Hard Worker"



Like Just Another Day on the Range



War, Fate, and Wind



"This Whole Thing Is a Bad Idea"



Maybe That's Just the Wind Blowing the Door



Monuments to an Empire's Hubris



Hill 2610



"This Will Happen to You"



The Abstract Threat of Terror



The Enemy Gets a Vote



Matthias the Macedonian and the LMTV



The 7-31



Buddy



"Don't Go Down That Way"



Two in the Chest, One in the Head


Roll Call: 1-91 Cav and Others


Roll Call: 6-4 Cav and Others



"There's Not Going to Be Any Ice Cream"



"Bulldog-Six, Where Are You?"



Balloons



If You're the Enemy, Please Stand Up



"We Will Go to Kamdesh Next"



Chess with No Rules



After He Finished Washing the Blood Off



What Was Wrong with Kaine Meshkin



The Puppies



Pericles in Kamdesh



Enemy in the Wire: The End of Combat Outpost Keating


Roll Call: 3-61 Cav



The General's Competing Considerations



The Deer Hunters



Send Me



Elevator Ride



"Wish Me Luck"



GET SOMETHING UP!



"They've Got an RPG Pointed Right at Me"



Taking This Bitch Back



The Apaches



The Fundamentals



Blood and Embers



The Long Walk Down



Saint Christopher



Two Purple Hearts and Just One Scar


Epilogue


Glossary and Military Terms


Notes and Sourcing


An Important Note and Some Thanks


Index