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Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
the Small Wars Journal website, www.smallwarsjournal.com, and SOFREP News website, www.sofrep.com.
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
Fred Pushies’s formulaic overview of MARSOC since then is one of the few solid books available on the newly formed marine SOF units (Pushies 2011).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
The missions into Syria were also kept from almost everyone in the U.S. embassy in Damascus. “The chief of station, the ambassador will know they’re in there and maybe the chief of ops in the station, and that’s about it,” the special mission unit veteran said. The operatives had an emergency action plan if they were compromised. “Your best course
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Peacetime CEO aims to expand the market. Wartime CEO aims to win the market.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
John Warner and Carl Levin provide a timeless example of such an investigation in their “Review of the Circumstances Surrounding the Ranger Raid on October 3–4, 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia” (Warner and Levin 1995).