Twilight Warriors: The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War
By James Kitfield

With the planned withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the
longest conflicts in our nation's history were supposed to end. Yet we
remain at war against expanding terrorist movements, and our security
forces have had to continually adapt to a nihilistic foe that operates
in the shadows.The result of fifteen years of reporting, Twilight Warriors
is the untold story of the tight-knit brotherhood that changed the way
America fights. James Kitfield reveals how brilliant innovators in the
US military, Special Forces, and the intelligence and law enforcement
communities forged close operational bonds in the crucibles of Iraq and
Afghanistan, breaking down institutional barriers to create a
relentless, intelligence-driven style of operations. At the forefront of
this profound shift were Stanley McChrystal and his interagency team at
Joint Special Operations Command, the pioneers behind a hybrid method
of warfighting: find, fix, finish, exploit, and analyze. Other key
figures include Michael Flynn, the visionary who redefined the
intelligence gathering mission; the FBI's Brian McCauley, who used
serial-killer profilers to track suicide bombers in Afghanistan; and the
Delta Force commander Scott Miller, responsible for making team players
out of the US military's most elite and secretive counterterrorism
units.The result of their collaborations is a globe-spanning
network that is elegant in its simplicity and terrifying in its
lethality. As Kitfield argues, this style of operations represents our
best hope for defending the nation in an age of asymmetric warfare. Twilight Warriors is an unprecedented account of the American way of war-and the iconoclasts who have brought it into the twenty-first century.