Sublime

All of us are human and we like to be favorably noticed by those above us and even by the public. An Allied Commander-in-Chief, among all others practicing the art of war, must more sternly than any other individual repress such notions. He must be self-effacing, quick to give credit, ready to meet the other fellow more than half way, must seek and

As Steve Niva recounts, JSOC established itself as a truly joint command under McChrystal, systematically breaking down bureaucratic barriers to forge connections between the military’s elite units, ranging from the Navy SEALs to the Army’s Delta Force, and the Air Force’s Special Tactics Group. With the support of Donald Rumsfeld who was intent on

Fred Pushies’s formulaic overview of MARSOC since then is one of the few solid books available on the newly formed marine SOF units (Pushies 2011).

At the war’s outset in April 1917, Fox Conner had been an undistinguished major, in one of the least glamorous bureaus of the War Department, whose primary battles had been against health problems. Nineteen months later, he wore a general’s star and sat in the inner circle that surrounded America’s most powerful soldier since Ulysses S. Grant. At a

Red Organizations are wolf packs. In Amber, the metaphor changes: a good organization should be run like an army.

Wavell had a gift for picking good people. One was Major Ralph Bagnold, an officer in the Royal Signals, one of a select band who knew and respected the great desert that lay behind the cultivated coasts of North Africa. Bagnold had been exploring the Sahara since 1926. He had improved the sun compass for desert navigation, discovered the best way