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IN LESS THAN SIX months, General Suleiman had lost a nuclear facility he’d managed to keep secret for five years, and a close confidant and ally who’d cheated death for decades. Humiliated and furious, he ordered Scud missiles, some armed with chemical warheads, prepared for launch into Israel. He demanded that Assad strike back with aggression. As
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With the end of the Cold War, and the subsequent dissolution of both the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, NATO faced a conundrum. With its principal threat now gone, the alliance could have dissolved, but its members chose instead to maintain the alliance and expand it; membership went from sixteen countries in 1989 to twenty-nine over the ensuing
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Kiras, James D. Special Operations and Strategy: From World War II to the War on Terrorism. London: Routledge, 2006.
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
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