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Special Forces and Central Intelligence Agency operatives teamed up with indigenous Afghan irregular forces of the Northern Alliance to battle Taliban militia. The U.S. military bolstered the war effort with heavy doses of air power and a conventional infantry unit, the 10th Mountain Division. This hybrid combination proved extremely effective at d
... See moreWilliamson Murray • Hybrid Warfare
Admiral King “listened with utmost enthusiasm,” wrote Captain James Doyle, Turner’s operations officer, when describing the UDT efforts at Flintlock. “Excellent,” King interrupted in the middle of Doyle’s briefing, “that business of the hydrographic survey at the first possible moment is a pet hobby of mine.” For Turner, however, a unit capable of
... See moreBenjamin H. Milligan • By Water Beneath the Walls
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
... See moreRonen Bergman • Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Joshua Kaplanpropublica.org
THE BASIC IDEA: GIVE GROUND GRUDGINGLY
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The study, Improving the Understanding of Special Operations: A Case History Analysis,
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
policies.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
At the time of the Camp David summit in July 2000, however, I’d been a politician for all of five years. Most of my life by far had been spent in uniform. As a teenager, small and slight and not even shaving yet, I was part of the founding core of a unit called Sayeret Matkal, Israel’s equivalent of America’s Delta Force or Britain’s Special Air Se
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