Introduction : when the man is the mission The Geronimo campaign The capture of Emilio Aguinaldo Pancho Villa and the Punitive Expedition The Sandino Affair The Vatican, black voodoo, heavy metal, and the Delta Force : the hunt for Manuel Noriega The warlord's revenge : Task Force Ranger and the search for Mohammed Farah Aideed The hunt for Osama bin Laden, part I Strategic manhunts in Mesopotamia : Saddam Hussein and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi The hunt for Osama bin Laden part II, manhunting lessons learned and Tora Bora reconsidered Conclusion : beyond bin Laden : the future of strategic manhunts