Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander’s Account of the Hunt for the World’s Most Wanted Man
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This work offers a firsthand account of the Battle of Tora Bora and an insider’s look at the extraordinary scenery of America’s supersecret counterterrorist unit—an elite and mysterious group known as Delta Force.
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Maybe the title should be “Here’s What We Should Have Done to Kill Bin Laden, but We Didn’t so He Got Away.”
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
O.K. all these wannabee Special Forces will like this book. It’s like all of these Andy McNab Super-Elite-Forces life tale: Everybody else is stupid, doesn’t get it and only a tiny bunch of Special Forces are clever, know what has to be done and are simply the real deal…
..sorry to say most of these life tale tell a failure: Iran hostage rescue attempt, Black-Hawk-Down, BravoTwoZero, LoneSurvivor and now this book.
Makes me marvel if a group of disciplined Infantry soldiers as a replacement for of these Ray-Ban and Gucci-Equipment pampered bearded ancient men wouldn’t have succeeded as a replacement for.
My firm judge: many modern “special forces” soldiers have simply lost the right special forces abilities: building much out of a small, like the SAS in WW II in North Africa.
But Dalton Fury just tells us the decline of Special Forces: they get every shiny equipment they want, they spend all day long in a sophisticated gym and disrespect everybody else.
Agreed a mission they fail and blame it on others….and an simple operation (so simple a caveman could do it!) like arresting a single ancient Afghani man in his hut in the mountains of Afghanistan is “one for the book”. The best is yet to come: the most hard part of the operation was done by some Afghan milita forces (opening up a checkpoint). The highly trained and arrogant DELTA operators simply were transported all the way in a truck…but Mr Fury makes us judge that the ride was very, very hard…
Come on, give me a break…
Mr Fury….you fail!!!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I have seldom read a book so poorly written. So much so, that after two chapters, although I was looking forwards to read what Major “Fury” had to say (I had seen him on 60 minutes), I gave up, and skipped read the rest of what passes for a book. It did not really matter since I knew the punch line: the mission failed, regardless of the bravery and dedication of the English and American participants.
But I don’t buy the excuses for the failure, as it reminded me too much of Vietnam. Allow me to paraphrase our “distinguished” ex-Secretary of Defense, Dumsfeld, who once said, “We go to war with the army we have, not the army we want,” and say, “We get led by the government we have, not the government we want.”
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The leader of this lame read runs his mouth a lot about how his hands were tied, but they seemed pretty free to me. Dalton Fury was agreed a broad mission-type order to ‘kill Bin Laden’ and as a replacement for he just acted like a diva and then wrote a dull book. Dull from the lack of action in addition to the featureless language.
Delta Force NEVER beaten the Al-Qaeda positions at Tora Bora even once, according to their commander in this book. To illustrate how close they even attempted to get to him, their entire unit never fired even a single shot(!) throughout the ‘battle,’ and they were all trained snipers. If this is America’s dedication, then the situation is certainly hopeless because the Taliban aren’t worried to die. The supposed ‘best of the best’ didn’t even man up to charge Bin Laden when it was their agreed mission to kill him.
I had a miserable time reading this garbage. The leader sure seemed to reflect him and the D-Boys were really terrible dudes, but it sure seems like they just blew it huge time. I thought all the language of, “Hey, we do it different because we’re Delta” and “We’re not operating on a pre-9/11 mentality. We’re going at ‘em!” was really just laughable.
As much as I’d like to blame the knucklehead planners at the Pentagon or the bungling government, I reflect this book is basically a confession that Delta Force was primarily reliable for failure. Maybe the Green Berets at Tora Bora had their hands tied, but Delta was left to go to work. These guys are supposed to be so tough, but all they did was call in a bunch of airstrikes and had friendly Afghans do most of the actual fighting.
Calling in airstrikes is only going to do so much, and it’s shocking to see Delta Force pursuing such an vital mission with such haphazard amateurishness. This is all by their own account! I reflect any infantry force would have really beaten. Maybe they should send Rangers or Marines next time because it’s not worth another Dalton Fury dropping the ball (well unless…) .
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This was a sub-average book. I establish the writing to be average and the editorializing by Maj Fury distracting. Now that I know his career progression, I better know why he views Tora Bora the way he does. He appears to be one of the best operators in the world but refused all attempts by the Army to train him in operational or strategic level operations. I do not recommend this book. He should have thought twice about writing this book. Since he chose he would, he desparately needed a ghost writer.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5