Special Ops at War From Afghanistan to Somalia, Special Ops Achieves Less with More
Special Ops at War
From Afghanistan to Somalia, Special Ops Achieves L
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By Nick Turse
At around 11 o’clock
that night, four Lockheed MC-130 Combat Talons, turboprop Special
Operations aircraft, were flying through a moonless sky from Pakistani
into Afghan airspace. On board were 199 Army Rangers with orders to seize
an airstrip. One hundred miles to the northeast, Chinook and Black Hawk
helicopters cruised through the darkness toward Kandahar, carrying Army
Delta Force operators and yet more Rangers, heading for a second site.
It was October 19, 2001. The war in Afghanistan had just begun and U.S.
Special Operations forces (SOF) were the tip of the American spear.
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