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Perilous Options: Special Operations as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy
Throughout the history of warfare, small battalions of warriors have repeatedly conducted sudden strikes on enemies deep within enemy lines with limited resources.
These strikes rely largely on surprise, speed, and maneuver to defeat an often numerically superior enemy.
Lucien vandenbroucke biography
In the past three decades, the United States has repeatedly used such special operations in an effort to achieve key foreign policy objectives. Many of these operations carried out by highly trained commando forces have failed.
In Perilous Options: Special Operations as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy, Lucien Vandenbroucke examines the use and misuse of special operations through an in-depth analysis of four operations - the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Sontay raid to rescue POWs in North Vietnam, the Mayaquez operation, and the Iran hostage rescue mission.
He identifies recurrent problems in the way the United States government has p