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The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander | 
 enlarge | Author: Pete Blaber
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2928
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0425223728
Dewey Decimal Number: 356.1670973
EAN: 9780425223727
ASIN: 0425223728
Publication Date: December 2, 2008 (New: This Week)
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Product Description
He survived combat zones around the globe. Now this ex-Delta Force warrior tells civilians what hes learned.
As a commander of Delta Forcethe most elite counter-terrorist organization in the worldPete Blaber took part in some of the most dangerous, controversial, and significant military and political events of our time. Now he takes his intimate knowledge of warfareand the heart, mind, and spirit it takes to winand moves his focus from the combat zone to civilian life.
With each mission, from extreme physical and mental training to the darkest of shadow ops in Colombia, Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Blaber returned with a powerful life lessonlessons readers can use to achieve more, win more, and live more. As the smoke clears from exciting stories about never-before-revealed missions executed all over the globe, people will emerge wiser, more capable, and more ready for lifes personal victories than they ever thought possible.
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Food for the brain December 3, 2008
Early in my book, Kill Bin Laden, I mention that Pete Blaber was one of the brightest minds to ever walk the halls of the Unit. With my bias upfront, you don't have to take my word for it though, simply read this book. I read it in twenty hours in between giving thanks with my family on Thanksgiving Day for what we all are so fortunate to have - freedom, a choice, and opportunity. Guys like Pete are a commodity as difficult to locate as the proverbial needle in a haystack...and even more so frustratingly tough to harness. Pete is one of America's unique leaders - truly "bold and fresh" - a pleasant resurrection of the 1980's E.F. Hutton boss. When Panther speaks and leads, warriors listen and follow. This is a treatise with few peers that illuminates the risky decisions, innovative breakthroughs, and gutsy leadership that history often obscures under the veil of operational security. I know Pete and none of this surprises me...but it still amazes me. For those that have yet to have that honor, readers of this book will be left astonished with how - and should - a few simple guidelines can fundamentally, logically, and consistently steer your leadership craft through life - whether or not you are on the battlefield or in the boardroom. If you enjoyed Kill Bin Laden, or even Jerry Boykin's Never Surrender, Pete's book - The Mission, The Men, and Me - will thrill and inspire you exponentially.
Wow--Sun Tzu meets Malcolm Gladwell December 2, 2008
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Finally a warrior writes about what really happened and the key life lessons we can all take away: `Always listen to the guy on the ground', `When in doubt, develop the situation', and my favorite, `It's not reality unless it's shared' are all embedded in these amazing real-world mission story's. His underlying premise is that the key to understanding the complex world around us is our ability to recognize, understand, and adapt to the underlying patterns that drive the behavior of everything around us, which I wholeheartedly agree with. But what really amazed about this book about patterns, is how many patterns there are in the book itself. Just about everything he writes about--from his childhood 'bombing cars' to his walk across the Gettysburg battlefield is linked to some other event, mission, or lesson somewhere else in the book. I read this book over the weekend, and I wrote so many notes in the margins on the patterns that I discovered, that I'm now going back through for the third time--last count I found 186 patterns. He says things like `don't charge the machine-gun nest, go around it', and 'treat life like a movie, not a snapshot', that I have always believed in myself, but had never been able to put in words or phrases before. Pete writes about Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and yes, Montana, with a fresh narrative that makes each mission come to life in a unique never before heard way, while also making what actually happened much easier to understand. The chapter on Gorrilla (not a spelling error) Warfare in Bosnia is magnificent, as was his short story on what we should really have learned from John Walker Lindh--why wasn't this ever covered in the press? The chapter on Ali Mohamed (the wayward terrorist) should be read by our new President, so he doesn't get burned like his predecessors did. Finally, I want to point out that the maps in this book set a whole new standard for battlefield maps. Google earth technology was used to create maps that make you feel like you are flying over the battlefield with a birds-eye view of everything going on below. This may be the best book I've ever read.
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