Twilight Warriors

The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War

By: James Kitfield

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

When US troops withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of 2014, the longest conflict in our nation's history came to an end. Yet we are still at war - no longer with other states but with a host of new enemies, from jihadi insurgents and nihilistic terrorists to narco-traffickers and modern-day pirates.

In Twilight Warriors, award-winning foreign correspondent James Kitfield introduces us to the tight-knit brotherhood that strives to keep the United States safe from the dimly understood threats it now faces. Together these men have broken down the boundaries between their respective agencies to engineer a network-centric way of fighting using a seamless web of intelligence analysts, information networks, FBI forensics experts, and Special Forces units to take the fight to America's enemies as never before.

©2016 James Kitfield (P)2016 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

South African Perspectives

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes. As a former intelligence officer in the South African Defence Force in the 1970s and 1980s I could detect a parallel between Iraq and our own insurgency war.
After the military have done their work the politicians must do theirs to bed the hard won outcomes.

What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?

The basic military philosophy of the modern war is to clear an area of enemy combatants, hold that area so that the enemy does not retake the terrain and most importantly rebuild the political, cultural, social and economic structures, a total strategy.

What about Tom Perkins’s performance did you like?

I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to this Audible book. The performance of the narrator Tom Perkins is flawless.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Not an extreme reaction but a smile because of the similarity between the Iraqi and Afghan wars and our own insurgency war (South Africa).

Any additional comments?

Al Maliki was no Nelson Mandela and without a total and genuine reconciliation between the majority Shiite government and disenfranchised Sunni there will be no peace.
Nelson Mandela had the vision and the courage to extend the ANC hand to the White minority.

Unfortunately and as in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan South Africa is harmed by the evil of corruption.
We also have had an endless flow of economic, political and war refugees in South Africa including many newcomers from Pakistan.
I hope Africom is also watching South Africa to detect the early signs of potential ISIS and AQ in Southern Africa.

Twilight Warriors also sets out wonderfully the collaboration between military operations, intelligence and law enforcement in the modern network centric approach pioneered by the United States. It is a web like the Internet.

James Kitfield reinforces the collaboration with the vivid examples of the men who were the real instruments of this new approach in the US Army, CIA, DIA, NSA, FBI, and NCTC.

A book well researched and also well written with a great style.
Bravo!

One of my favorite books

I have listened to this book so many times. It is such a wonderful comprehensive history of military operations over the past 20 years and I have been paying attention the whole time. it has taught me so much that I missed along the way. The author has done a meticulous job researching and the narrator reads it perfectly

excellent, thorough

A great look at the SO/LIC environment of the past 20+ years and how to win

Perfect summary and projextion

My friend Nino who flew helicopters in Vietnam recommend this book. I feel it's so urgently important to understand the world's counterterrorism that I will start it over and seek even more. Such a wonderfully written book. I hope our leaders listen very actively. Number 1 rule of. History: we don't learn from it. Let's start now!

Great insight in today's threats

A little slow in tone, but real in content. Exposes lessons learned, hopefully we will listen.

Must have

One of the best detailed books on the Middle East and what's going on there, how we got there, what some of our leaders think about it, how we lost control. How we lost secrets.
Unique book as opposed to the normal book we are seeing on the Iraq and Afghanistan war.

Outstanding

If you think this is simply a compilation of kinetic ops you would be mistaken. It is an exhaustive and personal accounting of the leadership in US Military, FBI, DEA, CIA and derivatives of these organizations which work tirelessly to protect US Citizens fighting not only against armed foes but also against politicians , budgetary constraints the federal bureaucracy, and journalist who are more interested in gotcha journalism in their quest for their own agendas , often leading to the nations loss of great leadership.