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 Revolutio

By Mark Cooter, Alec Bierbauer, Col. Mark Cooter (USAF, Ret. ), et al.

Book Overview

"An extraordinary, riveting, page-turning account--finally cleared for publication by the CIA--of the once highly classified effort by the CIA and special military units to develop a truly game-changing, transformational capability: armed drones."--General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Commander of the Surge in Iraq, US Central Command, and US and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, and former Director of the CIA​

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 reader 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151072091X
• ISBN13: 9781510720916
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"