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The year was 1968, and in the hyper-intensive intelligence atmosphere of the time, this was big news. Brill, a major in IDF Military Intelligence Directorate—known by its Hebrew acronym, Aman—set aside the report he was reading and got up.
Yaakov Katz, Amir Bohbot • The Weapon Wizards
Tenet began pushing aggressively to bulk up the CIA’s paramilitary teams in Afghanistan, and he sold the White House on a program to capture terrorists, hide them in secret jails, and subject them to an Orwellian regimen of brutal interrogation methods.
Mark Mazzetti • The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
John K. Singlaub’s Hazardous Duty (Singlaub 1991).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
Sean Naylor’s Not a Good Day to Die (Naylor 2005) recounts the courage and organizational mishaps by SOF and coalition conventional forces in the one of the largest military operations in the post-9/11 era, Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, which took place in March 2002.
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
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L. David Marquet • Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say--and What You Don't
Irregular Regular: Recollections of Conflict Across the Globe (The Extraordinary Life of Colonel David Smiley Book 3)
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Service Five has a one-word title—Action. This office was the core of the anti-OAS war.
Frederick Forsyth • The Day of the Jackal
