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is Stanley McChrystal’s My Share of the Task (McChrystal 2013).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
Marc Ambinder and D. B. Grady’s The Command: Deep Inside the President’s Secret Army (Ambinder and Grady, 2012).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
Before the invasion of Tarawa—the central island of the Gilbert Island thrust—the Navy’s hydrographic analysis showed that on the morning of assault the coral reef that surrounded the island would only be submerged to a depth of four feet six inches. A fully loaded Higgins Boat had a draft of four feet—just enough. When it was discovered, however,
... See moreBenjamin H. Milligan • By Water Beneath the Walls
None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism (Hirsh 2003).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
Long-Range Desert Group,
Max Boot • Invisible Armies
the Small Wars Journal website, www.smallwarsjournal.com, and SOFREP News website, www.sofrep.com.
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
The U.S. geopolitical leadership has shown two faces to the world. One was the U.S. interest in building law-based multilateral institutions, including the global institutions of the UN system and regional institutions such as the European Community (and later European Union), of which the United States was a champion from the start. The other was
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
Douglas Waller’s account of U.S. SOF after the Cold War, The Commandos (Waller 1994),