Sublime

In the early hours of July 3, 2014, two Black Hawks full of Delta operators crossed the border from Jordan into Syria, flying fast across the desert. Their destination was a compound outside the town of Raqqa, on the north bank of the Euphrates in north-central Syria. It was there, U.S. intelligence analysts believed, that a group calling itself th

Berets Waged an Unconventional War Against the Taliban to Win in Afghanistan’s Deadly Pech Valley and Ann Tyson’s American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant (Fry 2017; Tyson, 2015).

The Parisian dealer Emmanuel Perrotin was thrown out of the fair because he gave exhibitors’ passes to art consultant Philippe Ségalot and Christie’s owner François Pinault. As a compensatory gesture toward Perrotin’s loss of face and income, Ségalot admitted to paying him $300,000.

Leslie Cohen, Robin Bilardello, Milan Bozic, Frank

Yamamoto may have been a clever and sympathetic personality, but the epic clumsiness of the Midway plan emphasised his shortcomings. It required him to divide his strength; worse, it reflected characteristic Japanese hubris, by discounting even the possibility of American foreknowledge. As it was, Adm. Chester Nimitz, the U.S. Navy’s Pacific comman

I’m not so stupid. One doesn’t take one’s enemy’s book as a souvenir. There it is on your shelf. The Role of the West. Who is this York Harding?’ ‘He’s the man you are looking for, Vigot. He killed Pyle—at long range.’ ‘I don’t understand.’ ‘He’s a superior sort of journalist—they call them diplomatic correspondents. He gets hold of an idea and the

The shift was apparent from the guest list. Included for the first time with the mainstream Jewish leaders were the heads of Americans for Peace Now and the newly founded J Street, both organizations stridently critical of Israel and its traditional American supporters. Their presence rattled the other participants, many of whom had been personally

Sean Naylor’s Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command is another case in point (Naylor 2016).