Sublime

And that was enough. In early 1954, only five months after Unit 101 had been established, Dayan merged it with the Paratroopers Brigade, with Sharon as one of the battalion commanders. Dayan believed that Unit 101 had become a model—of training and discipline, of dedication and skill—that Sharon could replicate with the paratroops and then in the e

You bring criminals to justice; you rain destruction on combatants. This is a fundamental distinction that can no longer be avoided. The bombings of Sept. 11, 2001, must mark a turning point.

Kelly Orr’s Brave Men…Dark Waters: The Untold Story of the Navy SEALs is one of the best of many historical accounts available before the literature available about SEALs exploded after 9/11 (Orr 1992).

2001. The attacks on September 11 made clear that some terrorists would not be constrained by fear of provoking a devastating response to mass casualty events. On the contrary, the terrorists made it clear they wanted to provoke a massive U.S. response that their previous attacks had failed to stimulate. The attacks also seemed to demonstrate that terror

Pete Blaber’s book, The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander, came out the same year as Boykin’s memoir (Blaber 2008).

On July 24, less than a month after the North Korean invasion, Joy tasked Rear Admiral James Doyle, the commander of Amphibious Group One, to order his Marine Corps cadre in Mobile Training Team Able (MTTA) to stop training US Army soldiers in vehicle waterproofing, landing craft embarkation, and all the skills necessary to execute another D-Day, a