{"product_id":"9781118346723","title":"The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army","description":"The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) has proven to be the most lethal weapon in the president's arsenal. Shrouded in secrecy, the Command has done more to degrade the capacity of terrorists to attack the United States than any other single entity. And counter-terrorism is only one of its many missions. Because of such high profile missions as Operation Neptune's Spear, which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden, JSOC has attracted the public's attention. But Americans only know a fraction of the real story.\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Command\u003c\/i\u003e, Ambinder and Grady provide readers with a concise and comprehensive recent history of the special missions units that comprise the most effective weapon against terrorism ever conceived. For the first time, they reveal JSOC's organizational chart and describe some of the secret technologies and methods that catalyze their intelligence and kinetic activities. They describe how JSOC migrated to the center of U.S. military operations, and how they fused intelligence and operations in such a way that proved crucial to beating back the Iraq insurgency. They also disclose previously unreported instances where JSOC's activities may have skirted the law, and question the ability of Congress to oversee units that, by design, must operate with minimum interference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith unprecedented access to senior commanders and team leaders, the authors also:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePut the bin Laden raid in the larger context of a transformed secret organization at its operational best. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplore other secret missions ordered by the president (and the surprising countries in which JSOC operates). \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrace the growth of JSOC's operational and support branches and chronicle the command's mastery of the Washington inter-agency bureaucracy. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBy Marc Ambinder, a contributing editor at the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, who has covered politics for CBS News and ABC News, and D.B. Grady, a correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and former U.S. Army paratrooper and a veteran of Afghanistan. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wiley, John \u0026 Sons, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107218702576,"sku":"9781118346723","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781118346723_p0.jpg?v=1763693610","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781118346723","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}