Expendable Assets
People, Places and Things Behind The Story
Part 3, Chapter 1 - Codetta
The Truck - http://www.usedvacuumtrucks.com/custompage.asp?pg=amthor
Protective Detail Training - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUjdFEt5uzY
Part 2, Chapter 24 - Deceiving Heaven
Qaeda Non-Arabs - http://articles.cnn.com/2004-07-17/us/fbi.bulletin_1_terror-group-al-qaeda-operatives-fbi?_s=PM:US
Srebrenica - http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/06/bosnian_serb_ratko_mladic_capt.html
Part 2, Chapter 23 - Dead Man's Chest
D.C. Forts - http://civilwarstoriesofinspiration.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/arlington-ridge-sees-wars-beginning-end/
Fountain Avenue - http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/nyregion/thecity/12murd.html
Part 2, Chapter 21 - You Say Potato, I Say London
Wall Scanners - http://www.finehomebuilding.com/PDF/Free/021217020.pdf
The Architect - http://www.aoc.gov/aoc/index.cfm
Part 2, Chapter 20 - Jethro's Crib
Part 2, Chapter 19 - Magically Delicious
Bazalgette - http://historyday.coldray.com/introduction/
The Pier, The Bridge, and The Highlines - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnkaren/4888403662/
Part 2, Chapter 18 - Henchmen Eat Free
Taser XREP - http://www.flickr.com/photos/38263556@N05/3650336511/in/photostream
The Dome, The Mount, The Gate and The Waiting Dead - http://www.pilgrimimages.com.au/shopping/pgm-more_information.php?id=27&=SID
Part 2, Chapter 17 - Allah's Shotgun
Part 2, Chapter 16 - Cut The Red Wire
NSL too much work? Just use a Post-It - http://reason.com/blog/2010/01/20/why-use-a-national-security-le
Taxi Mobile Data Terminal - http://www.digital-dispatch.com/dispatch-solutions/mobile-data-terminals/vector800
Part 2, Chapter 15 - Tiger Penis Soup
Part 2, Chapter 14 - Eating Mastodon
Wisconsin - http://www.hnsa.org/ships/wisconsin.htm
Printing 101 - http://fd258.com/. Not sure why the video guy needs a fake vest to stand in a storage closet.
Part 2, Chapter 13 - Helpy Helperton
Lippmann Objectivity - http://www.concernedjournalists.org/lost-meaning-objectivity
The Secret Art - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six_Stratagems
Part 2, Chapter 12 - Mad Dog
Van Eck - http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/wim-van-ecks-legacy/634
Padlocks & Aluminum Cans - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRjNnnLOpmE
Part 2, Chapter 11 - Snogging the Elephant Man
Part 2, Chapter 10 - Trashmore
Trashmore - http://www.baltimoresun.com/travel/beaches/bal-bab-vatrashmore,0,4662582.story
Wiretaps? Have all ya want - http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/Statistics/WiretapReports/2009/2009Wiretaptext.pdf
Part 2, Chapter 9 - Br'er Rabbit
Underground Smithsonian - http://siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/historic/84_11807_18.gif
One Million Dollars - http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/million/million.html
Part 2, Chapter 7 - Zoinks
Keel Laying - http://www.marinelink.com/news/article/keel-laying-ceremony-for-cvn-77/324797.aspx
Phone Tracking - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10453214-38.html
Part 2, Chapter 5 - Lounge Lizards
Part 2, Chapter 4 - The Sicilian Dragon
Weekends in Englewood & BotY - http://streetknowledge.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/chicago-gangs-give-city-deadly-weekend32-shot-2-stabbed-6-dead/
SuperGlue - http://www.vat19.com/brain-candy/accidental-inventions-fingerprinting.cfm
Part 2, Chapter 1 - South by Northwest
Great Dismal - http://gradschool.unc.edu/programs/royster/explorenc/northeast/northeast/dismalswamp.html
Istiqlal - http://beautifulmosques.com/?tag=istiqlal-mosque
Laskar Jihad - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,187655,00.html
Part 1, Chapter 16 - Point of Attack
Point of Attack - https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/litterms.html
Crabtown Overlook - http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=2900
Part 1, Chapter 15 - Sheeple
GAO on PSC Cost - http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-266R
Where the Money Is - http://washingtontechnology.com/toplists/top-100-lists/2009.aspx
Corporal Timmy - http://www.thenation.com/article/other-war-iraq-vets-bear-witness-0?page=full
Part 1, Chapter 14 - Prisoner's Dilemma
The Dilemma - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prisoner-dilemma/
Play It - http://www.gametheory.net/Mike/applets/PDilemma/Pdilemma.html
We DO make a federal case out of it - http://www.2009transition.org/criminaljustice/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=86
Lobsters - http://www.overcriminalized.com/CaseStudy/McNab-Imprison-by-Foreign-Laws.aspx
Part 1, Chapter 11 - Kashmir'yan
Part 1, Chapter 10 - Scariana
Old Terminal - http://www.mieahmtphotography.org/2010/05/kabul-airport.html
Former Runway Scenery - http://www.prixpictet.com/files/artworks/modified/534/4516.zoom.jpg
Part 1, Chapter 9 - Dukakis Moment
Charitable Giving - http://www.american.com/archive/2008/march-april-magazine-contents/a-nation-of-givers
The Moment - http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm10.html
Part 1, Chapter 8 - Dogwelder
That Other Ed Thatch - http://www.republicofpirates.net/Blackbeard.html
Dogwelder – http://bluepoetic.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/dogwelder-intro.jpg
Part 1, Chapter 7 - Road to Kabul
Rockin’ the Chaderi - http://fullofbees.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/blue-burqa.jpg
Kabul Traffic - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/17/kabul.jpeg
The Mighty Kabul - http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MG_2110.JPG
Part 1, Chapter 6 - Proposition
Shinwar Initial Reporting - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256458,00.html
Three Faiths, One Book - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawrat
Part 1, Chapter 5 - Eight Mile
B-hut 101 - http://armymomstrong.com/b-huts-a-place-to-hang-your-hat-in-afghanistan/
Big Brother Narus is Watching You - http://www.narus.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73&Itemid=289
Running Bagram - http://oswegocountytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/cuyler1.jpg
Part 1, Chapter 4 - Mouthbreathers
Willkommen auf der Adlon - http://vrtour.kempinski-hotels.com/KIBER2/en/86.html
The Battle - http://greatmilitarybattles.com/Battle%20of%20Berlin.htm
Khaldei’s “Fall of Berlin” (Retouched) - http://www.famouspictures.org/mag/index.php?title=File:Reichstag_flag2.jpg
Part 1, Chapter 3 - Fobbits
SWEET Jingle Trucks – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzsKihdtcgA&feature=related
A tiny fraction of the "materiel" – http://kimberlywarner.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/bagram-and-bagram.jpg
A’stan: Junkyard of Empires – http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2009/10/the-road-to-bagram/
Part 1, Chapter 2 - Riding Venus
The C40-B: Your Congressperson’s $70 million “Office in the Sky” - http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2006/march/mainfeature.html
Hasty Generalization … even Batman knows better. http://garry.posterous.com/truly-excellent-batman-and-rob
Salamanders and Three Ways to Stack the Deck - http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/gerrymandering.htm
Part 1, Chapter 1 - The Noodle Incident
The “gravel-filled wire mesh boxes” are Hesco Barriers, and they’ve changed force protection the same way barbed wire did. http://www.hesco.com/video/TRL_double.html
The Noodle Incident is an old trope, but the trope-namer—as with all things Calvin-and-Hobbes—is the best. http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Noodle_Incident
Local convoy security paying protection money to Afghani insurgents is the norm. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5327683.ece
The Capital Visitors Center: Oy vey. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/02/capitol-visitor.html