The Battle of Ramadi was not going to stop. To do so would be to sign a death warrant for the other nine, he says. The men understood this seemingly harsh course of action and that was exactly what we did. Colonel Hackworth's commitment to his men was one of the primary reasons I related to his book. He wrote quote the thing was you had to look after your soldiers. It is the soldier who makes them happen or doesn't. This feeling came to me instinctively but it had been reinforced over and over again by what I had read in the pages of about face.