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Guardian Angel: Life and Death Adventures with Pararescue, the World's Most Powerful Commando Rescue Force

A small crowd surrounded the agent in the department’s main nerve center, a room where all intelligence flowed before being distributed to the various case officers. Colonel Avraham Arnan, Brill’s direct superior, was focusing on one photograph.

Yaakov Katz, Amir Bohbot • The Weapon Wizards

Navy Seal

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Ronen Bergman • Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

While this last was an overstatement and probably a rumor that Donovan himself had spread, it was not far from the mark. Twenty-two years earlier, when presented the Medal of Honor for actions on the Western Front at an award ceremony in the New York City Armory, Donovan had melodramatically unclasped the strap, then re-presented it to the four

Benjamin H. Milligan • By Water Beneath the Walls

is Stanley McChrystal’s My Share of the Task (McChrystal 2013).

David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces

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If you’re not Italian, you’ve likely never heard of Nicola Calipari, the Italian secret service agent murdered in Iraq by US soldiers. This is his story. On February 4, 2005 — exactly 20 years ago — Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was kidnapped by Iraqi insurgents. Nicola Calipari, a senior officer in the Italian... See more

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In November 1943, Rear Admiral John Hall took command of the 11th Amphibious Force and assumed the responsibility for depositing the Army’s Fifth Corps on the landing site designated as Omaha Beach—nothing less than the most important operation in American history.

Benjamin H. Milligan • By Water Beneath the Walls

None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism (Hirsh 2003).