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Jerry Boykin’s memoir, Never Surrender: A Soldier’s Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom, is notable because he rose higher in the Pentagon’s policy apparatus than most SOF officers and thus offers insights on the political aspects of managing SOF from Washington, DC (Boykin 2008).

Ronald Fry’s Hammerhead Six: How Green

Thomas Ahern’s CIA and Rural Pacification in South Vietnam and James Stejskal’s Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army’s Elite, 1956–1990 (Ahern 2001; Stejskal, 2017).

Mike Flynn, taught me a great technique. We were visiting a unit that boasted of having more than 250 intelligence sources (Iraqi civilians recruited to pass information to U.S. forces). I was deeply impressed. Mike then asked a simple question: “Can you describe your very best source? I’ll assume that all the others are less valuable.” The unit ad

Christiaan Rudolf de Wet,

Moyar, Mark. Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces. New York: Basic Books, 2017.

the Small Wars Journal website, www.smallwarsjournal.com, and SOFREP News website, www.sofrep.com.

John Piedmont’s Det One: U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Special Operations Command Detachment, 2003–2006

Robert O’Neill’s The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior (O’Neill 2017).