Operation Dark Heart (43 page)

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Smith, J. D.

Snow, Tony

SOCOM (Special Operations Command)

Somalia

South Waziristan

Soviet Union

Afghanistan occupation

tank graveyard

Special Forces

Speicher, Michael Scott

standards of conduct

Starbucks

Statue of Liberty

Stratus Ivy

sub-Saharan Africa

Sullivan, Patrice

sunglasses

surveillance technology

surveillance training

Swank, Hilary

Swat Valley

Taliban

Federally Administered Tribal Area

goals against

Mountain Viper.
See
Operation Mountain Viper

Operation Dark Heart.
See
Operation Dark Heart

Operation Winter Strike

overrunning police outposts

Task Force 1099.
See
Task Force 1099

videotape propaganda

“Taliban taxis,”

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Task Force 1099

concept of operation

“Death Star,”

Hekmatyar assault

initial strategy

madrassah bombing

setup

special holding facility

spring mission (Operation Shadow Matrix)

Task Force 180

Task Force Stratus Ivy

Task Force Warrior

Tate, Julie

Tenet, George

10th Mountain Division,
See also
Operation Mountain Viper

Tier 1 targets.
See
HVTs

Tier 2 targets

Title 10

Title 50

TOC (Tactical Operations Center) (“Death Star”)

Tora Bora

Torres, Raphael

torture.
See
enhanced interrogation methods

Toyota Corollas

Toyota Tacomas

training of Anthony Shaffer

unity of command

Varicose and His Itchy Veins

Vietnam War

Vines, John

Operation Dark Heart

Operation Mountain Viper

Wana

Bruce Gains

Medford, Chris

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Christenson, David “Dave,”

Al Qaeda Hotel

intelligence information exchange

introduction to

Kabul IED

Operation Dark Heart

Operation Mountain Viper

PTT improvised raid

Taliban video

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Weldon, Curt

Werman, Lisa (alias)

West Point

Wilson, Tom

winning in Afghanistan

addressing root cause of regional instability

appointing a forceful leader

changing logistical footprint

controlling the border

creating internal operational policy framework

establishing peace process

establishing true combined forces command

following the money

price of failure

radically rethinking analytical approach

reducing the violence

WMDs (weapons of mass destruction)

World Trade Center attacks (2001).
See
9/11 attacks

World Trade Center bombing (1993)

World War II

Wright State College

Yemen

York, Jerry

Zabul.
See also
Operation Mountain Viper

Zaid, Mark

Zawahiri, Ayman Al-

Zelikow, Philip

GLOSSARY

ACM
—Anti-Coalition Militia

ADVON
—Advanced Operations

AFB
—Air Force Base

AFG
—Air Force Group

AFSAC
—Air Force Special Activities Center

AMF
—Afghan Militia Forces

ANA
—Afghan National Army

BCP
—Bagram Collection Point

BDU
—battle-dress uniform

CENTCOM
—U.S. Central Command

CH-47
—Chinook heavy-lift helicopter

CJSOTF
—Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force

CJTF
—Combined Joint Task Force

CONOP
—Concept of Operations

CSAR
—Combat Search and Rescue

DCI
—Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

DCU
—desert camouflage uniform

DIA
—Defense Intelligence Agency

DOCEX
—Document Exploitation

EBO
—Effects Based operation

Farm
—CIA training Facility

FLIR
—Thermal imaging, forward looking infrared camera

FOB—
Forward Operating Base

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FRAGO
—fragmentary order

G2
—army director of intelligence

HESCO
—a modern gabion made of wire mesh containers lined with heavy fabric and filled with dirt and rocks.

HIG
—Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin—terrorist group founded by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

HOC
—HUMINT Operations Center

HQ
—Headquarters

HSD
—HUMINT Support Detachment

HSE
—HUMINT Support Element

HUMINT
—Human Intelligence

HVT
—High Value Target

ID
—identification; identify

IG
—Inspector General

INSCOM
—Army Intelligence and Security Command

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ISAF
—International Security Assistance Force

ISI
—Pakistani Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence

J2
—senior intelligence officer, joint staff

J3
—director for operations, joint staff

JDAMs
—Joint direct attack munition

JSOC
—Joint Special Operations Command

JSOTF
—Joint Special Operations Task Force

JSTAR
—airborne surveillance and target attack radar sytem

LIWA
—Army’s Land Information Warfare Activity

LTC
—Leadership Targeting Cell

LZ
—Landing Zone

MIDB
—Military Intelligence Database

MP
—military police

MRE
—meal ready to eat

NCO
—noncommissioned officer

NFN
—National File Number

NIMA
—National Imagery and Mapping Agency

NSA
—National Security Agency

NVGs
—Night-Vision Goggles

OIC
—Officer in Charge

ROE
—Rules of Engagement

RPG
—rocket-propelled grenade

SA-7
—Soviet-made SAM (surface to air missile) a.k.a. GRAIL or Strela-2

SAW
—Squad Automatic Weapon

SCIF
—Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility