Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

would do that?” “No idea,” said Gary. “He knows he has to run that call through me. But he’s been in t ...

he doesn’t really deal with the big picture,” Gary replied. His anger subsided and his ...

was up to me to make sure you know the parameters we have to work within and why some decisions have ...

PART II THE LAWS OF COMBAT ...

Bruiser SEALs clear target buildings in central Ramadi. Ruthless insurgents could be waiting behind every door ...

CHAPTER 5 Cover and Move Leif Babin SOUTH-CENTRAL RAMADI, IRAQ: COVERING THE FLANK “So what are we doing?” asked ...

The U.S. Army’s Ready First Brigade Combat Team (1st Armored Division) adopted a radical and innovative stra ...

—with their substantial firepower. Additional forces from the battalion were brought in to reinforce Team Bu ...

position in a large four-story apartment building some three hundred meters to the east of COP Falcon ...

destruction. We continued our patrol down the dusty, trash-covered streets, weapons bristling in all d ...

pursue that option. Leaving a team in place, we sent a clearance team to the adjacent building. But wha ...

eastern horizon, and South-Central Ramadi began to awaken. Even in this war-torn city, some semblance o ...

our position and the day progressed. The cordon and search operation proceeded with sporadic gunfire and a few ...

determined enemy fighters at close quarters. This presented quite a leadership dilemma. Again, I discu ...

COP Falcon, we would probably get shot at. But it would likely be a hasty attack that the muj wouldn’t ha ...

passed by gave enemy fighters more time to coordinate a serious attack on our position. Within a few m ...

automatic gunfire erupted from the rear of the patrol. Insurgent fighters had followed us and heavily engaged us ...

happy. He pulled me aside. “What the hell were you guys doing out there?” the chief aske ...

returned to COP Falcon. It was foolishness not to work together. Though we were working in small teams with ...

principle and operate independently or work against each other, the results can be catastrophic to ...