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Linda Robinson’s One Hundred Victories (Robinson 2014) covers SOF operations in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013,
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
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Ross Edgley • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body
As Steve Niva recounts, JSOC established itself as a truly joint command under McChrystal, systematically breaking down bureaucratic barriers to forge connections between the military’s elite units, ranging from the Navy SEALs to the Army’s Delta Force, and the Air Force’s Special Tactics Group. With the support of Donald Rumsfeld who was intent on
... See moreAntoine J. Bousquet • The Scientific Way of Warfare
In addition, most works that seriously considered guerrilla warfare as a military phenomenon did so from the counterguerrilla’s perspective not from the guerrilla’s own. Thus, Gubbins’s genius lay in synthesizing existing ideas into a concise and usable form.
A. R. B. Linderman • Rediscovering Irregular Warfare
The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
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Time and again, guerrilla warfare seemed to be superseded by the “new new thing”—industrial warfare in the 1910s, aerial warfare in the 1930s, nuclear warfare in the 1950s, network-centric warfare in the 1990s. And yet each time it reasserted itself with a vengeance. Since World War II, insurgency and terrorism have become the dominant forms of
... See moreMax Boot • Invisible Armies
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