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Forging a Special Operations Force: The US Army Rangers (Caraccilo 2015).

EMPLOYMENT OF U.S. SOF

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John Warner and Carl Levin provide a timeless example of such an investigation in their “Review of the Circumstances Surrounding the Ranger Raid on October 3–4, 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia” (Warner and Levin 1995).

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.

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.

Kiras, James D. Special Operations and Strategy: From World War II to the War on Terrorism. London: Routledge, 2006.

American troops found their tactics and technology, still designed to defeat an opponent like the now defunct Red Army, woefully inadequate to deal with these new threats.