Warrior Elite: 31 Heroic Special-Ops Missions from the Raid on Son Tay to the Killing of Osama bin Laden
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ISBN: 1569759308 / Publisher: Ulysses Press, July 2011
Looks at thirty-one special operations missions throughout history, including the battle of Tora Bora, the Falklands War, the raid on Entebbe, and the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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THE ULTIMATE WARRIORSHighly trained and equipped to kill, special-ops forces take on the world’s most dangerous and courageous missions. Warrior Elite zeroes in on the most lethal special- ops encounters of all time.• RAID AT SON TAYHelicopter gunships drop 100 Green Berets into North Vietnamese jungle on a virtual suicide mission to rescue POWs• MAERSK ALABAMAPerfect planning and precise execution come together as Navy SEALs fire the greatest simultaneous sniper shots ever• BATTLE OF TORA BORAIn the pitch-black labyrinthine caves of Afghanistan, Special Forces dispatch Taliban insurgents in a video game–like scenario of infrared warfare• KILLING OF BIN LADENWith the plan up in smoke as a Black Hawk goes down, SEAL Team 6 deftly adjusts on the fly—getting in and eliminating the target in just 7 minutes
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