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Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves

The Inside Story of How a Team of Renegades Broke Rules, Shattered Barriers, and Launched a Drone Warfare Revolution

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Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves

By: Alec Bierbauer, Col. Mark Cooter USAF (Ret.), Michael Marks
Narrated by: David de Vries
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The inside story of how a CIA officer and an Air Force officer joined forces to develop America's most powerful tool in the war on terror.

Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves is the character-driven story behind the origins of the Predator drone program and the dawn of unmanned warfare. A firsthand account told by an Air Force team leader and a CIA team leader, Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves takes the listener into the back offices and secret government hangars where the robotic revolution went from a mad scientist idea to a pivotal part of global air power.

The story will reveal the often conflicting perspectives between the defense and intelligence communities and put you inside places like the CIA's counterterrorism center on the morning of 9/11. Through the eyes of the men and women who lived it, you will experience the hunt for Osama Bin Laden and the evolution of a program from passive surveillance to the complex hunter-killers that hang above the battlespace like ghosts.

Poised at the junction between The Right Stuff and The Bourne Identity, Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves will document the way a group of cowboys, rogues, and bandits broke rules and defied convention to change the shape of modern warfare.

©2021 Alec Bierbauer, Mark Cooter, and Michael Marks (P)2022 Tantor Air Forces Armed Forces Military Military & War Military Science Weapons & Warfare Warfare Espionage
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An interesting book on the early beginnings of modern drone warfare.
However..... the reader has to suspend disbelief in the absolutely ridiculous clichéd, tripped, and blockbuster worded rendition of the story.
the characters withing might just as well have beat their chests and screamed "Murica! F#ck yeah! and in fact the second bit is indeed screamed at one point!
This attitude is a testimony to how American forces can be both amazing, and appalling in the same conflict.
It also lays bare how much interservice rivally was still.present in the 2000's.
So as.lomg as the reader can overlook the idiotic Hollywood aspirations then this is still a good book.

Interesting read but......

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