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Title: Inside CentCom

Subtitle: The Unvarnished Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Author: Michael DeLong, Noah Lukeman, Tony Zinni

Narrator: Paul Christy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

General Mike DeLong deputy commander of the U.S. Central Command during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars was second only to General Tommy Franks in the war on terror. At the centre of discussions between President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Tommy Franks, General DeLong offers the frankest and most authoritative look inside the wars - how the US prepared for battle, how they fought, how two regimes were loppled-and what's happening now. Shows where Bob Woodward, Richard Clarke and others got it wrong. Reveals disagreements between Franks, Rumsfeld, DeLong and Wolfwitz.

Editorial Reviews:

Inside CentCom is brief and rudimentary recounting of Marine Lt. General Micheal DeLong's service as Tommy Franks' deputy at the United States Central Command, from 2000 until his retirement in 2003. This memoir works to paint a candid plainspoken account of the choices, and policies of the US military during that time, with a focus on the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Narrator Paul Christy does a great job of elevating the heavy content of this audiobook, and giving a personality to this military examination. He also manages to give emphasis to various failures and successes from the invasion years in the long Iraq and Afghan wars.

Members Reviews:

Succint Book Full of facts

Michael DeLong, a retired U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen, has written a book that is brief but very informative. If you are looking for a book that reports on the United States war on terrorism and is not a lengthy tome, this is the book. I base my premise after having read AMERICAN SOLDIER by General Tommy Franks, THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN BY Robin Moore, THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT, and THE IRAQ WAR by John Keegan. I have also read several books by Bernard Lewis, probably the Western world's foremost scholar on the Middle East.

First off, after reading this material, I would say that the mainstream media in this country has done a great disservice to the American public by not reporting much of this information. One can hang any label on the reasons why but basically, one has to dig to find the real story.

Take weapons of mass destruction. Gen. DeLong describes how, in the 48 hour grace period given Iraqui leadership by President Bush, people and material fled Iraq for Syria and other locations. He confirms the fact that both the king of Jordan and the president of Egypt as well as every intelligence operation in the world believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Gen. Franks also reported this in his book. John Keegan notes in THE IRAQ WAR that David Kay, the leader of the Iraq Survey Group, after make their report to the Senate Armed Services Committee in January, 2004, told British media that he had evidence of the transfer by Iraq of WMD to Syrian territory. Christopher Hitchens, writing in VANITY FAIR magazine during the early stages of the war, reported that trains were leaving Iraq in the middle of the night and not being stopped at the Iraqui border by customs. The unofficial word was that the trains were transporting weapons of mass destruction out of Iraq. One was hard-pressed to get this information from the mainstream media. Gen. DeLong, in a presentation on C-Span2 BookTv, was asked why the Bush administration did not publicize this information.