Dalton Fury

Dalton Fury

Dalton Fury is the author of the New York Times bestseller Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man and a new Delta Force Thriller series that chronicles the disgraced but resilient Kolt "Racer" Raynor. The series was launched with Black Site. Tier One Wild, the second book in the series, will be available October 2012.

Dalton Fury was the senior ranking military officer at the Battle of Tora Bora. As a Delta troop commander he led ninety-one other Western special operations commandos and support personnel and helped author, along with some of Delta’s most talented sergeants, the tactical concept of the operation to hunt and kill bin Laden.
Focus On: Intel
Beyond the Kill Shot
By: Dalton Fury | May 1, 2012

Sustained, intense combat brands the mind. It's almost impossible to erase.

The images of combat that come to mind most often? They’re rarely of a neutralized target— even if that target was Usama bin Laden.

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Focus On: Intel
Find Your Maverick—or Grant
By: Dalton Fury | January 28, 2012
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CP Note: This is the second in a series of posts by Dalton Fury, inspired by leadership he's seen in action through the years.

When the future of the Union was in doubt and the Confederacy was giving it to the Yanks, President Abraham Lincoln turned to the unrefined, abrasive, results-oriented General Ulysses S. Grant. Grant’s leadership turned the tide and ensured the North won the Civil War.

Four modern day superstar special ops leaders—GEN (R) Stan McChrystal, BG Scott Miller, Col (R) Pete Blaber, and BG Bennet Sacolik—at some point in their black ops career, turned to one man as their Grant. Year after year, commander to commander, maverick warrior LTC (R) Jim “Serpico” Reese, a stand-out Ranger and Delta officer, quite possibly would have made Grant appear wanting when it came to working through chaos, calming nerves, and demanding the best out of subordinates.

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Focus On: Special Operations Teams
Get Over It!
By: Dalton Fury | January 26, 2012
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CP Note: This is the first in a series of posts by Dalton Fury, inspired by leadership he's seen in action through the years.

The year was 1994 and the US Army was staged to invade the country of Haiti. Our Ranger battalion had just loaded the tail end of the last of seven C141 aircraft prepped to execute a combat jump on Dallas DZ. The 82nd Airborne had already taken off from Fort Bragg, N.C. No sooner had we struggled into our seats did we see our battalion commander, then LTC Frank Kearney, come walking up the ramp still wearing his parachute.

The colonel grabbed the nearby radio mike and made an announcement over the aircraft’s intercom.

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Focus On: Fiction Fridays
Black Site: A Delta Force Novel
By: Dalton Fury | January 20, 2012

In 2001, I was the Delta Force troop commander given the secret mission to hunt down and kill the most wanted man in the world—Usama Bin Laden.

In 2008, I shared the untold story of that fateful mission in the book Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man, and recounted the twists and turns of the Battle of Tora Bora fought high in the mountains of Eastern Afghanistan.

Soon after Kill Bin Laden became a bestseller, I started a new mission—a mission to craft a thriller series about classified “black” ops and operators, “real” fiction about real warriors.

CP Note: Read the preface and chapter one, and listen to chapter two, of Dalton Fury's Black Site here.

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Focus On: Afghanistan, War on Terror, WWII
Pearl Harbor to Tora Bora, Yamamoto to Bin Laden
By: Donald A. Davis and Dalton Fury | December 22, 2011
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CP Note: 2011 marked the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks.

The surface parallels are easy to spot: both surprise attacks, both by air, both shocks to the world.

The article below breaks the surface and drills in, going back and forth between Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and Usama bin Laden,their reasons and motivations for planning and executing Pearl Harbor and 9/11, and the manhunts that followed.

Yamamoto

Much of what the admiral said went against the tide of popular opinion. Once the emperor agreed to make war against the United States, Yamamoto immediately ended his personal opposition, for he would never speak against the Chrysanthemum Throne. He set aside his feelings and accepted who he was—the sword of the emperor, and the one man in Japan who was capable of bringing the United States to its knees.

“What a strange position I find myself in now,” he wrote an old friend. “Having to make a decision diametrically opposed to my own personal opinion, with no choice but to push full-speed in pursuance of the decision.”

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Focus On: Special Operations Teams
How to Survive a Special Ops Raid by Dalton Fury
How to Survive a Special Ops Raid
By: Dalton Fury | May 7, 2011
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Look at the hands first. Armed or unarmed?

Take a mental snapshot of the individual.

Within a nanosecond process what you see and make a life or death decision—known as target discrimination.

If death, focus as your body moves on pure muscle memory.

Apply appropriate hold off for your rifle optics.

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Focus On: 9/11
The Hunt for Bin Laden
By: Dalton Fury | May 2, 2011
The mission was to kill Osama bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world—an operation of such magnitude that it couldn’t be handled by just any military or intelligence force. The best America had to offer was needed. As such, the task was handed to roughly forty members of America’s supersecret counterterrorist unit formally known as 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta; more popularly, the elite and mysterious unit Delta Force... [More...]
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