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Moyar, Mark. Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces. New York: Basic Books, 2017.
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
“Leaders must be able to master four major tasks. Firstly, they need comprehensively to grasp the overall strategic situation in a conflict and craft the appropriate strategic approach–in essence, to get the big ideas right. Secondly, they must communicate those big ideas, the strategy, effectively throughout the breadth and depth of their organiza
... See moreMark Moyar’s account of American SOF from World War II to the present (Moyar 2017) is well researched.
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
Marquis, Susan L. Unconventional Warfare: Rebuilding U.S. Special Operations Forces. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1997.
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
if the diagnosis is that Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is “another Hitler,” war might be the logical implication. However, if he is “another Moammar Gadhafi,” then strong pressure coupled with behind-the-scenes negotiation might be the chosen guiding policy.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Peter McCabe and Paul Lieber’s edited volume, Special Operations Theory (McCabe 2017)