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Rage Company
By: Thomas P. DalyeBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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One Marine's gripping story of the bloody battles, the Surge, and the Awakening of Sunni tribes that changed the tide in Iraq's Anbar province
Seven minutes into the first patrol a firefight erupts. Quickly, the Marines of Rage Company became acquainted with the nature of counterinsurgency. Every day, more IEDs were planted than the Marines could clear. They avoided taking the same route twice, they never walked out in the open, and they steered clear of roads that hadn't been "swept" in the last hour. They were in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province and one of the deadliest cities in Iraq.
In November 2006, then First Lieutenant Thomas Daly arrived as part of the "surge" in Ramadi, to take part in Operation Squeeze Play, a division-size effort to remove al Qaeda from Anbar province. In this powerful memoir, he describes the successful clearing of southern Ramadi's Second Officer's district, the Qatana, and the uprising of local citizens against al Qaeda on the eastern edge of the city (the result of an unlikely alliance between Daly's company and Thawar al Anbar). From the first patrol to the last in the spring of 2007, he takes you inside the daily successes and struggles of the operation and the stressful challenge of trying to discern who was a terrorist and who was a civilian. He tells the powerful and very human story of a people who want to free their country, yet have no basis on which to trust the American forces in helping them succeed.
"So vivid are Daly's descriptions that the reader can sense the tipping point and can anticipate that al Qaeda in Iraq will strike back savagely. What a tale Daly tells! You won't read this in textbook theories about counterinsurgency."—Bing West, author and retired Marine general, from his foreword to Rage Company " Rage Company will stand apart from the many Iraq memoirs and histories already published."
—Nathaniel Fick, author of the New York Times bestseller, One Bullet Away "Tom Daly captures the uncertainty, chaos, fog and friction inherent in all combat. . . . In particular, he provides an inside, street-level look at the emergence of the Anbar Awakening. . . . Definitely belongs on the bookshelves of professionals."
—T. X. Hammes, Colonel, USMC (Ret) author of The Sling and the Stone A Marine's personal story of fighting an insurgency and overcoming a siege mentality to work with Iraqis to rout a common enemy, Al Qaeda Captain Daly's unique perception of the battlefield has been shaped while operating with units of the United States Army, Navy SEALs, ANGLICO (Air, Naval Gunfire Liaison Company), Iraqi Army and Police Units, and anti-Al Qaeda guerrillas
Filled with on-the-ground details and insights on military operations and strategy, Rage Company cements the accurate history of the unlikely alliance that redirected the Iraq War and set the course for operations in the future.
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| Title of History eBook: Rage Company | |
| Release Date: 03-18-2010 | |
| Publisher: Wiley |
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Rage Company
Chapter One
Becoming a Bandit: The Baptism
November 27, 2006
Lieutenant James Thomas walked out the front door of Combat Outpost (COP) Grant. Two concrete structures made up the American fortress in southern Ramadi. A few months earlier, two Iraqi families had called the structures home; now the buildings were covered in camouflage netting, sandbags, and reinforced wooden fighting positions. About three feet away, directly in front of the lieutenant, was a seven-foot wall of dark green sandbags. He briskly walked out from underneath the camouflage netting, following the wall as it snaked back to his left. The ground-level view of Ramadi confronted Lieutenant Thomas.
This was a city-a dense, quiet (for the moment) urban sprawl of structures. Block after block of small storefronts and houses occupied his vision. If you replaced the towering minarets and mosques with steeples and churches, Ramadi didn't look all that different from urban America. That is, assuming you could visualize what the city had looked like before undergoing years of conflict and neglect.
The neighborhood surrounding COP Grant was mostly residential, single-family homes. Three and a half years earlier, before the invasion, a hundred thousand people had lived in this southern part of Ramadi. Now it appeared to be uninhabited. Most of the streets were covered in so much sand and dust that one might mistakenly assume they weren't paved.
The reinforced squad of Marines was already in formation, clearly visible to any observer. The nervousness of the first patrol was obvious.
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