Ebook: One hundred victories special ops and the future of American warfare
Author: Taliban., Robinson Linda
- Tags: Afghan War 2001---Campaigns, Afghan War 2001---Commando operations--United States, Armed Forces, Commando troops, Counterinsurgency, Counterinsurgency--Afghanistan--History--21st century, Military campaigns, Politics and government, Special operations (Military science), Special operations (Military science)--United States, Livres électroniques, History, Military history, Taliban, Afghan War 2001- -- Campaigns, Afghan War 2001- -- Commando operations -- United States, Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- His
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: PublicAffairs
- City: New York;Afghanistan;United States
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
One Hundred Victories is a portrait of how—after a decade of intensive combat operations—special operations forces have become the go-to force for US military endeavors worldwide.
Linda Robinson follows the evolution of special ops in Afghanistan, their longest deployment since Vietnam. She has lived in mud-walled compounds in the mountains and deserts of insurgent-dominated regions, and uses those experiences to show the gritty reality of the challenges the SOF face and the constant danger in which they operate.
She witnessed special operators befriending villagers to help them secure their homes, and fighting off insurgents in the most dangerous safe havens even as they navigated a constant series of conflicts, crises, and other meteors" from conventional forces, the CIA, and the Pakistanis—not to mention weak links within their own ranks. They showed what a tiny band of warriors could do, and could not do, out on the wild frontiers of the...