title: Outnumbered, Outgunned, Undeterred: Twenty Battles Against All Odds
author: Rob Johnson
description: Johnson demonstrates a flair for explaining the plight of modern armies fighting insurgents and the difficulties of sustaining coalitions in protracted conflicts.<br /> - <strong><em>Historian</em></strong><br /><br />Rob Johnsonsucks the reader into a heart-pounding action of twenty battles fought by an outnumbered, outgunned yet wholly undeterred force of men (and the occasional woman) with intense, detailed prose.<br /> - <strong><em>Portland Book Review</em></strong>
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  AGAINST ALL ODDS
   
  J.T. Brannan
  
   
   
  GREY ARROW PUBLISHING
   
  First Edition
   
  This edition published in 2017 by Grey Arrow
  Publishing
   
  Copyright © 2017 J.T. Brannan
   
  The moral right of the author has been asserted
   
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters,
  places and incidents either are the product of
  
  the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously,
  and any resemblance to actual persons, living or
  dead, businesses, companies, events or locales is
  entirely coincidental
   
  All rights reserved
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
   
   
  For Jakub and Mia;
  and my parents, for their help and support
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  “The best government is a benevolent tyranny
  tempered by an occasional assassination”
   
  - Voltaire
  
  PROLOGUE
  
   
  1
   
   
  “Okay, this is it. The real deal.” Mike Williams was the leader of the
  eight-man assault team that waited inside the beat-up panel van parked at
  the rear entrance of the cheap apartment block in Tysons Corner, just
  outside DC.
  There was another van just next to