Sublime

Soldiers of the First Battalion of the U.S. Army’s Seventh Cavalry Regiment poured out six at a time with weapons and supplies. Sixteen helicopters ferried hundreds of men from a staging area miles away to this instant base of operations, south of the Ia Drang River and not far from the Cambodian border. They called it LZ X-Ray. The operation in th

Naylor, Sean. Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command. New York: St. Martin’s, 2016.

The price was never paid by the war’s leaders. As a U.S. Army officer in Iraq wrote in 2007, “A private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.” The cost for Americans fell on the bodies and minds of young men and women from small towns and inner cities. It was unusual to meet anyone in uniform in Iraq who

Peter McCabe and Paul Lieber’s edited volume, Special Operations Theory (McCabe 2017)

BATTLE BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS FROM U.S. SOF