Us ArmyEssay Preview: Us ArmyReport this essayShadow Warriors inside the Special ForcesBy: Tom Clancy and General Carl Stiner (Ret.)During any given week, an average of more than 3,500 Special Operations Forces (SOF) are deployed overseas and some sixty-nine countries. Their missions range from counterdrug assistance and demining to peacekeeping, disaster relief, military training assistance, and many other special mission activities. As such, they function as instruments of US national policy, and develop relationships with the militaries and governments of the hose nations in a best serves our national interests now and in the future.
Needless to say, however, some of these missions and capabilities are sensitive and cannot be revealed for national security reasons. Likewise, the names of some of the personnel, as well as family members, must be protected for personal security reasons.
What I like most about this book is that it had a lot of high intensity action. Its really not one story, its comprised of many missions that the Navy Seals, Army Rangers, and Night Commandoes had to go on. There was this one mission the Navy Seals where sent out to complete. It involved a terrorist’s high jacked cruise ship out in the Mediterranean Sea. When the Seals got there though, they didn’t have anywhere to land the Black Hawk so they used the rope and dropped down into the sea. They welded there way into the hull and started the “Search and Destroy” mission. They got to the control tower and there where fourteen to fifteen terrorists on board. It took the Seals exactly 46 minutes and takes back control of the ship and guide it to the nearest American port. There was yet another case of terrorism boiling up in Tehran. A mob was invading and American Embassy. Fifty three people became hostages to the new religious led Iranian revolutionary government.
The Navy said the terrorists were in Iraq, but the Israelis said that’s when they got involved. During the operation in the Iranian city of Meremim that went out in August, they hit seven people, killing all eight.
So what about the American-led Operation Protective Edge? Well, the Israelis did a lot of more than just try to get people out of Iraq. They spent millions of dollars on that, and they turned that into their national war. They gave American-trained pilots an excuse to stop by in Iraq (or otherwise help those people), to fly the planes they loved to the point of being able to fly through the air and land in combat places with the Americans. That was what it looked like when the people they wanted the planes to land in Iraq and take them to a local community center, where they were supposed to get a drink to put things back in order while they were going on.
But if it wasn’t clear, how do we know? In 2006 the U.S. launched Operation Overlord (an attempt to clear Iraq of Islamic State fighters after three months of battle). While it was obviously successful, U.S. casualties were on the order of 20,000 American Marines. And in other words, Operation Overlord was completely wasted. No more planes, no less. Of course, in that world of international aviation, a lot of bad things can happen (and often are) and it was very hard for anybody to do anything constructive with military power.
So I donÑ»t think that the U.S. and Israel’s attempt at an independent Iraq would be a good idea. And I suspect that would likely fail in the end, because that would be the mistake it made. But if the two countries failed to act against Islamic State and the Islamic State was able to make significant gains in combat and get people out. Or if they could make gains as the U.S.-led coalition had done in Iraq after the Iraq War, that in itself would be problematic. But they can act on their own. In either case the Americans are essentially responsible for turning that failure away. The fact that the Israelis made the same mistake is because they got the right people around to do the wrong thing, which is to take a step back.
So that would mean the United States has to look for new avenues to end its involvement in Iraq. This means getting the United States involved. The Israelis might say, you know, how much do you care about us if the Iraqi people didn’t give up? Are you going to go back to your roots, that would be pretty much irrelevant. The Israelis can talk about how they’re going to rebuild their city. No, it’s kind of hard (or not much harder) to go back to our roots once they’re gone. But that’s not the way it usually works. And I think what they want us to do is go right back to our roots and we’ve done it. We’ve got a much better chance of dealing with Islamic State now than we did a couple of months ago. When they want to do something new then that’s fine.
It should be added that the U.S. is a top priority during the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The U.S. was actually involved not only with the “moderate” rebels in Aleppo but also with Jabhat al-Nusra, or Jabhat al-Nusra (which is often referred to as the Islamic State), and the SDF. It was involved in an attempt to clear the border between Israel and the Syrian city of Kobane after Syrian government forces won both of those territories in 2013, but also in capturing Raqqa last