One Hundred Victories: Special Ops and the Future of American Warfare - Rilegato

Admiral William McRaven, Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, on NPR's "The National Conversation"
"Folks within the Special Operations community listen to Linda Robinson, and when they listen to her I listen to them.... When you listen to what she has to say and the power of her arguments, it's hard to argue with her. Linda, thanks for all the great work you've done."

Admiral Eric Olson, U.S. Navy (Retired), Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command
"Linda Robinson has again accurately captured the unique spirit, competence and complexity of special operations forces. As a long-time, close-up observer of SOF in action, Linda understands the organizations, capabilities and personalities that make them so effective in ambiguous and dangerous situations. I highly regarded her careful analysis and honest presentation of the facts and issues that dominate SOF's deployments and missions. Her writing is streamlined, very readable and thoroughly enjoyable."
Seth G. Jones, author of "In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan"
"Linda Robinson has written a lucid and superbly-informed account of U.S. special operations forces in Afghanistan."

Peter Bergen, author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad"
"Linda Robinson is well established as one of the leading experts on the US military. In "One Hundred Victories" she again turns her attention to the Special Forces that were the subject of her first book. Robinson delivers a deeply reported, well written account of the recant history of Special Forces and how they will likely shape the future of the US military long into the future."

"Publishers Weekly"
"Robinson delivers vivid, blow-by-blow accounts of a dozen Special Ops campaigns to train local Afghans to defend their communities. She recounts many victories--despite spotty cooperation from the Afghan government and conventional American forces--as well as a few failures. ... The author--who is no Pollyanna and is a much better writer than the average academic--delivers a painfully realistic account of how Special Ops have valiantly tried to turn matters around in Afghanistan."
"Kirkus Reviews"
"Robinson makes a sincere effort to understand these elite warriors on human terms...[An] approachable, detailed account of the men for whom extreme warfare is a daily job and the American policies driving their expanded mission."
Admiral William McRaven, Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, on NPR's "The National Conversation"
"Folks within the Special Operations community listen to Linda Robinson, and when they listen to her I listen to them.... When you listen to what she has to say and the power of her arguments, it's hard to argue with her. Linda, thanks for all the great work you've done."
Admiral Eric Olson, U.S. Navy (Retired), Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command
"Linda Robinson has again accurately captured the unique spirit, competence and complexity of special operations forces. As a long-time, close-up observer of SOF in action, Linda understands the organizations, capabilities and personalities that make them so effective in ambiguous and dangerous situations. I highly regarded her careful analysis and honest presentation of the facts and issues that dominate SOF's deployments and missions. Her writing is streamlined, very readable and thoroughly enjoyable."
Seth G. Jones, author of "In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan"
"Linda Robinson has written a lucid and superbly-informed account of U.S. special operations forces in Afghanistan."
Peter Ber

"New York Times Book --Admiral Eric Olson, U.S. Navy (Retired), Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command

New York Journal of Books
"A timely work that is part military history and part after-action analysis... Ms. Robinson provides an excellent primer on how counterinsurgency is done at the village level, from the isolation and hardships the American endured to their patient cultivation of the trust of village elders to side with them in fighting the Taliban."
Admiral William McRaven, Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, on NPR's "The National Conversation"
"Folks within the Special Operations community listen to Linda Robinson, and when they listen to her I listen to them.... When you listen to what she has to say and the power of her arguments, it's hard to argue with her. Linda, thanks for all the great work you've done."
Admiral Eric Olson, U.S. Navy (Retired), Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command
"Linda Robinson has again accurately captured the unique spirit, competence and complexity of special operations forces. As a long-time, close-up observer of SOF in action, Linda understands the organizations, capabilities and personalities that make them so effective in ambiguous and dangerous situations. I highly regarded her careful analysis and honest presentation of the facts and issues that dominate SOF's deployments and missions. Her writing is streamlined, very readable and thoroughly enjoyable." --New York Journal of Books

New York Times Book Review
"Linda Robinson's 'One Hundred Victories: Special Ops and the Future of American Warfare' is a ground-level snapshot of American counterinsurgency in Afghanistan... Robinson, a senior international policy analyst at RAND, gives us a close-up portrait of how these small, highly skilled groups have gone about their mission of helping Afghan villages and local leaders protect themselves from Taliban insurgents. Her treatment is rich and detailed... The book is a worthy addition to the literature on the war."
US Naval Institute's Proceedings
"[Robinson] is quite literally an expert without peer with it comes to the issues of SOF policy and SOF force application... Highly readable and paints a compelling picture of SOF in the 2010-12 timeframe... The result is a series of ground-truth, factual vignettes that provide a glimpse into the personal as well as the policy... This is a fine book, and Robinson is to be commended for her work in linking the future of SOF to his recent history in Afghanistan in such a personal and readable manner. ..We can count on Linda Robinson to keep us abreast of the current disposition and future of SOF." --New York Times Book Review

Based on unique inside access and new on-the-ground reporting, the author of the New York Times bestseller Masters of Chaos and Notable Book of the Year Tell Me How This Ends explains why the future of US military presence abroad belongs to the Special Forces: how that happened and what it means