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Peacetime CEO strives to tolerate deviations from the plan when coupled with effort and creativity. Wartime CEO is completely intolerant.

Another superb study of a special operation gone wrong is Mark G. Davis’s “Operation Anaconda: Command and Confusion in Joint Warfare” (Davis 2004).

Marquis, Susan L. Unconventional Warfare: Rebuilding U.S. Special Operations Forces. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1997.

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).

Perilous Options: Special Operations as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy (Vandenbroucke 1993).

Time and again, guerrilla warfare seemed to be superseded by the “new new thing”—industrial warfare in the 1910s, aerial warfare in the 1930s, nuclear warfare in the 1950s, network-centric warfare in the 1990s. And yet each time it reasserted itself with a vengeance. Since World War II, insurgency and terrorism have become the dominant forms of con

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