12/26/2023 0 Comments Neptunes spear![]() This year, he’s teaching the bin Laden raid as the new textbook example of a direct-action mission. For the past few years, Austin Long, an assistant professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, taught the Entebbe raid in his class on special operations in low intensity conflicts. ![]() Until last May, Operation Thunderbolt was considered the textbook direct action mission for students of special operations. In July 1976, Israeli commandos stormed the airport at Entebbe, Uganda and rescued 105 hostages held by pro-Palestinian hijackers (the animation on this video is second rate, but it gives a good overview of the raid).īut wait a minute. What does a 36-year-old Israeli commando raid have to do with killing Osama bin Laden? In this week’s issue of TIME, journalist Peter Bergen and historian Graham Allison walk us through the events that led up to Navy SEALs storming bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on a moonless night one year ago.īut to truly understand what the raid means in the study of special operations, you have to go back much further, past Operations Eagle Claw, the disastrous 1980 attempt to rescue hostages from the American Embassy in Tehran, to Operation Thunderbolt. Also, because Chris used open sources to write this book, you don’t have to fear stealing government secrets and taking a bullet to the head." -Stephen Templin, New York Times bestselling co-author of SEAL TEAM SIX.Follow year removed from the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, hundreds of hours of programing and print pages are being devoted to to telling us what it all means. The reference page alone is a treasure for studying/reviewing the unit that whacked bin Laden. For experts on Team Six, Chris’s work provides an excellent summary of the post-9/11 Team with occasional information you probably missed. ![]() For newcomers to the topic, BEYOND NEPTUNE SPEAR provides an exhaustive overview of Team Six’s current happenings. Although a short book, you’ll get bang for your buck here. Chris Martin begins with Team Six’s “rogue” beginnings then quickly springs into its operations post-9/11 until present. Grady, co-author of THE COMMAND: DEEP INSIDE THE PRESIDENT'S SECRET ARMY."BEYOND NEPTUNE SPEAR tells much of what you wanted to know about SEAL Team Six post-9/11 but didn’t ask for fear of getting shot. It is the most comprehensive guide to the unit ever published." - D.B. ![]() BEYOND NEPTUNE SPEAR is a remarkable synthesis of the history, operations, and organization of SEAL Team Six. Once mired in controversy and doubt, ST6 has blossomed into one of the most accomplished fighting units the world has ever known.Having taken down the highest of high-value targets, rescued American hostages in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Indian Ocean, and served as the silent guardian of the Coalition's conventional forces, SEAL Team Six has defined the post-9/11 world as much as it has been defined by it.The follow-up to SHAPING THE WORLD FROM THE SHADOWS - the definitive open-source guide to Delta Force - BEYOND NEPTUNE SPEAR is a contextual examination of DEVGRU's post-9/11 existence, from the most high-profile operations to the little-known missions that are still barely more than whispers."Once again, Chris Martin has proven himself to be one of journalism's sharpest observers of U.S. The modern history of SEAL Team Six did not begin with the killing of Osama bin Laden, nor did it end there.
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