Dirty wars: the world is a battlefield

Prologue

"There was concern ... that we not create an American hit list" : Washington, DC 2001-2002

Anwar Awlaki : an American story : the United States and Yemen, 1971-2002

Find, fix, finish : the rise of JSOC : Washington, 1979-2001

The Boss : Ali Abdullah Saleh : Yemen, 1970-2001; Washington, DC, 2001

The enigma of Anwar Awlaki : the United Kingdom, the United States, and Yemen, 2002-2003

"We're in a new kind of war" : Djibouti, Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2002

Special plans : Washington, DC, 2002

Survival, evasion, resistance, escape : Washington, DC, 2002-2003

The troublemaker : Stanley McChrystal : the United States, 1974-2003, Iraq 2003

"Their intention and our intention is the same" : Somalia, 1993-2004

"A defeated enemy is not a vanquished one" : Yemen, 2003-2006

"Never trust a nonbeliever" : United Kingdom, 2003

"You don't have to prove to anyone that you did right" : Iraq, 2003-2005

"No blood, no foul" : Iraq, 2003-2004

The Death Star : Iraq, 2004

"The best technology, the best weapons, the best people

and plenty of money to burn" : Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, 2003-2006

"A lot of it was of questionable legality" : Source : "Hunter"

The imprisonment of Anwar Awlaki : Yemen, 2004-2007

"America knows war. They are war masters" : Somalia, 2004-2006

Prison break : Yemen, 2006

Hot pursuit : Pakistan, 2006-2008

"Every step taken by the US benefited al Shabab" : Somalia, 2007-2009

"If your son does not come to us, he will be killed by the Americans" : Yemen, 2007-1009

"Obama is set to continue the course set by Bush" : United States, 2002-2008

Obama's signature strikes : Pakistan and Washington, DC, 2009

Special Ops want to "own this shit like they did in Central America in the '80s" : Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2009

Suicide or martyrdom? : Yemen, 2009

Obama embraces JSOC : Somalia, early 2009

"Let JSOC off the leash" :Saudi Arabia, Washington, DC, and Yemen, late 2009

Samir Khan, an unlikely foot soldier : the United States and Yemen, 2001-2009

Blowback in Somalia : Somalia and Washington, DC, 2009

"If they kill innocent children and call them al Qaeda, then we are all al Qaeda" : Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2009

"The Americans really wanted to kill Anwar" : Yemen, late 2009-early 2010

"Mr. Barack Obama ... I hope that you reconsider your order to kill ... my son" : Washington, DC, and Yemen, early 2010

One night in Gardez : Washington, DC, 2008-2010; Afghanistan, 2009-2010

The Year of the Drone : Yemen and the United States, 2010

Driving Anwar Awlaki to hell : Yemen, 2010

The CIA's dating service : Denmark and Yemen, 2010

"The auction of the assassin" : Washington, DC, 2010

"Martyrdom is why we came here, my brother" : Yemen, 2009-2010

The persecution of Abdulelah Haider Shaye : Yemen, summer 2010

The President can write his own rules : Washington, DC, and Yemen, late 2010

Al Qaeda's "foothold in Somalia has probably been facilitated" : Somalia, 2010

"Anwar Awlaki ... definitely has a missile in his future" : Yemen, 2011

The curious case of Raymond Davis : Act I : Pakistan, 2011

The curious case of Raymond Davis : Act II : Pakistan, 2011

The tsunami of change : Austria and Yemen, 2011

The fortress in Abbottabad : Washington, DC, 2010-2011; Pakistan, 2011

"We got him. We got him" : Pakistan, 2011

"Now they're after my son" : Somalia, Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2011

"It was cold-blooded" : Pakistan, 2011

"The US sees al Qaeda as terrorism, and we consider the drones terrorism" : Yemen, late 2011

The Pink House : Washington, DC, and Somalia, 2011

"Total savagery throughout the country" : Somalia, 2011

Abdulrahman vanishes : Yemen, 2011

Hellfire : Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2011

Paying for the sins of the father : Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2011

Perpetual war.