Rage Company - Daly, Thomas P
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Boots and sandals "Rage Company" tells the unique, gripping, and compelling story of how U.S. Marines transcended their role as fearless warriors to form an unlikelyalliance with Sunni Arabs, former Iraqi soldiers, and guerrilla groups. Itwas this alliance that drove al Qaeda from Anbar Province and turnedthe tide in Iraq. "So vivid are Daly's descriptions that the reader can sense the tippingpoint 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 aboutcounterinsurgency." --Bing West, author of "No True Glory and…mehr

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Boots and sandals "Rage Company" tells the unique, gripping, and compelling story of how U.S. Marines transcended their role as fearless warriors to form an unlikelyalliance with Sunni Arabs, former Iraqi soldiers, and guerrilla groups. Itwas this alliance that drove al Qaeda from Anbar Province and turnedthe tide in Iraq. "So vivid are Daly's descriptions that the reader can sense the tippingpoint 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 aboutcounterinsurgency." --Bing West, author of "No True Glory and The March Up" (from the Foreword) ""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. . . . He provides an inside, street-level look at the emergence of the Anbar Awakening. . . . Definitely belongs on the bookshelves of professionals." --Col. T. X. Hammes, USMC (Ret.), and author of "The Sling and the Stone"
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CAPT. THOMAS P. DALY III joined the Marines after graduating from the University of Rochester in 2004. During his career as anartillery officer, he has held a multitude of billets ranging from forward observer to intelligence cell leader. His 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. He is now a project manager for ITT Corporation and lives with his wife and daughter in New York.