From the foreword: "The present volume, Vanguard of Valor II, offers six accounts of US Soldiers at the tip of the spear during the Afghan campaign. The CombatStudies Institute's Vanguard of Valor series is intended to document smallunit actions in Afghanistan. These books play an equally important role byoffering insights to Soldiers who may find themselves in the years aheadunder similar conditions, whether in Afghanistan or in some other troubledland where they have been deployed to conduct the dangerous business ofdefending the national interest in a theater of war."