Военная история / The U.S. Special Forces: What Everyone Needs to Know

Название: The U.S. Special Forces: What Everyone Needs to Know
Автор(ы): John Prados
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2015
Страниц: 225
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 6 MB

The assassination of Osama bin Laden by SEAL Team 6 in May 2011 will certainly figure among the greatest achievements of US Special Forces. After nearly ten years of searching, they descended into his Pakistan compound in the middle of the night, killed him, and secreted the body back into Afghanistan. Interest in these forces had always been high, but it spiked to new levels following this success. There was a larger lesson here too. For serious jobs, the president invariably turns to the US Special Forces: the SEALs, Delta Force, the Green Berets, and the USAF's Special Tactics squad. Given that secretive grab-and-snatch operations in remote locales characterize contemporary warfare as much as traditional firefights, the Special Forces now fill a central role in American military strategy and tactics.