As Commander of the 101st Airborne Division, General Petraeus was impressed by "Lighting in the Storm" that he invited Tom to come along as an embedded journalist, the only free lance writer in the invasion force.
As Commander of the 101st Airborne Division, General Petraeus was impressed by Tom's book, LIGHTNING IN THE STORM about the Screaming Eagles in their first desert war, soon to be its second in 2003. So he invited Tom to come along as an embedded journalist, the only free lance in the invasion force.