Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Operations on the Front Lines of Afghanistan

Anthony Shaffer

Mainstream, 2012 - Biography & Autobiography - 299 pages

Shaffer delivers an exciting, eyewitness account of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan using the military's most cutting-edge espionage tactics. Just before St. Martin's Press release of the book, The Department of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency, demanded the author and the publisher produce the book for review. They, and "other interested U.S. intelligence agencies" met with the author to review changes and redactions that they required be made, before the book could be published, in order to "not damage our national security, harm our troops, or harm U.S. military intelligence efforts or assets." Thus, there are sections with redactions in the final book.

About the author

LT. COL. ANTHONY SHAFFER is a Bronze Star Medal recipient and a lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Army Reserve. A CIA-trained senior intelligence operations officer, he has more than twenty-five years of experience in the intelligence community. He is a Senior Fellow and Special Lecturer at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit his Web site at www.operationdarkheart.com.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Operations on the Front Lines of Afghanistan
• Author: Anthony Shaffer
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Mainstream, 2012
• ISBN: 1780575424, 9781780575421
• Length: 299 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Military; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; History / Asia / General; History / Military / General; History / Military / Special Forces; History / Military / United States; History / Military / Veterans; History / Wars & Conflicts / Afghan War (2001-2021); Political Science / Intelligence & Espionage