Operators : The Wild and Terrifying inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan -- Paperback By Hastings, Michael Publisher : Orion Publishing Co Published Date : 2012/02 Binding : Paperback ISBN : 9781409144878 BookWeb Price : S$ 37.60 Kinokuniya Privilege Card member price : S$ 33.84 Availability Status : Available for order from suppliers. Usually dispatches within 3 - 4 weeks.

 
  PART I THE PLAN
    1 Delta Bravo                                  3  (3)
    2 It's Not Switzerland                         6  (6)
    3 Lady Gaga                                    12 (6)
    4 "Intimidated by the Crowd"                   18 (6)
    5 Arc de Triomphe                              24 (9)
    6 "A Violent Act"                              33 (7)
    7 On the X                                     40 (5)
    8 The A-Team                                   45 (6)
    9 "Bite Me"                                    51 (4)
    10 The Photo Op                                55 (4)
    11 Totally Shit-Faced                          59 (8)
    12 "Dead Silence"                              67 (5)
    13 The Horror, the Horror                      72 (6)
    14 We're Actually Losing                       78 (7)
    15 Petraeus Can't Do Afghanistan, and We       85 (9)
    Aren't Going to Get Bin Laden
    16 The Elections, Part I                       94 (6)
    17 Texts to Berlin                             100(2)
    18 The Elections, Part II                      102(6)
    19 Team America Rolls the Ritz                 108(8)
    20 On Principle                                116(5)
    21 Spies Like Us                               121(8)
    22 "I'm President. I Don't Give a Shit What    129(8)
    They Say"
    23 The Strategy                                137(12)
    24 "Let Me Be Clear"                           149(4)
    25 Worshipping the Gods of Beer                153(5)
    26 Who Is Stanley McChrystal? Part I,          158(7)
    1954-1976
    27 "The Jerk in Green"                         165(6)
    28 Who Is Stanley McChrystal? Part II,         171(5)
    1976-Present Day
    29 Reality Checks In                           176(7)
  PART II INTERLUDE: DUBAI                         183(18)
  PART III AFGHANISTAN
    30 A Short History of a Horrible Idea          201(9)
    31 Bad Romance                                 210(16)
    32 President Karzai Has a Cold                 226(6)
    33 An E-mail Exchange: Come Walk in Our        232(3)
    Boots
    34 A Boy Born in 1987                          235(5)
    35 Where Is Israel Arroyo?                     240(14)
    36 Ingram's House                              254(13)
    37 An Army of None                             267(9)
    38 In the Arena                                276(8)
    39 "I Didn't Even Know We Were Fighting        284(6)
    There"
    40 The Concluding Converations with Duncan     290(23)
    Boothby, General Petraeus Face-Plants in
    Congress, and the Story Breaks While I
    Watch American Helicopter Pilots Kill
    Insurgents
  PART IV THE GRACEFUL EXIT
    41 "Very, Very Bad"                            313(11)
    42 The Pentagon Investigates McChrystal        324(4)
    43 The Media-Military-Industrial Complex       328(3)
    44 I'd Rather Be Eating a Burger               331(5)
    45 Once Upon a Time in Kandahar                336(8)
    46 King David's War                            344(6)
    47 "Tourism, Not Terrorism"                    350(4)
    48 Petraeus Does Body Counts                   354(6)
    49 The New Afghanistan                         360(8)
    50 Joe Biden Is Right                          368(8)
Epilogue: Someday, This War's Gonna End            376(5)
Source Notes                                       381