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Long, Austin. “The Limits of Special Operations Forces.” PRISM 6, no. 3 (2016): 35–47.

In time I witnessed several such discussions between McChrystal and various senior leaders from partner agencies. These paraphrases of our organization’s core narrative would often go as follows: We clearly share a determined adversary—one that, unlike our organizations, is networked and thus moves with incredible speed. In the Task Force, we are n

Conner gradually led Eisenhower to a more advanced level of military study.24 The general introduced his assistant to the writings of the 19th-century Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, whose On War remains an influential treatise on warfare. Eisenhower struggled to grasp the military maxims set forth by Clausewitz, so Conner had Eisen

In a presentation I heard General McChrystal give at the New York Times New Work Summit in the summer of 2016, he said, “I tell people, ‘Don’t follow my orders. Follow the orders I would have given you if I were there and knew what you know.’”

Deterrence by denial requires a combination of offensive and defensive capabilities, improved resilience of systems, and a high degree of cooperation across government, businesses, and academia.