The Discipline of Steel Hardcover – February 11, 2026

From the perspective of a five-time combat veteran and US Army Special Forces officer, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Roth, comes an in-depth account of the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq during the Global War on Terrorism. The author's career, spanning over thirty-five years in the US military, provides the reader with a unique and exciting direct experience from one of the most combat-experienced Green Beret commanders of the current age. LTC Michael Roth provides a mature and detailed look at a Special Forces team in the modern battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan with his personal experience that includes the successes, trials, and failures from his first three combat tours. Spanning from his first experiences of the responsibilities of combat leadership of a Special Forces A-Team to his later highly developed approach to innovative, coordinated, and combined strike operations, he demonstrates maturity and knowledge borne in the fields of combat against an evolving enemy in a durational conflict that has spanned the past twenty-five years. In America's longest war, which still continues today, LTC Roth's unique critical thinking and problem-solving provide an impossible but relevant view of the war from the early onset to nation building and advanced tactics at an operational level. This book provides the reader with an unflinching look at modern tactical combat at the highest level, written by the man who lived it. Read more