I thought that the Son Tay raid went well for the raid itself, it was just that the prisons were empty which was a failure of the non military part of the operation?
“Other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?”
That’s kind of like saying the Jedburg teams that got rounded up by informers in France in WWII did good, except for the intel part. Not to mention, the almost all CIA post WWII native teams that were inserted into Eastern Europe, almost all of them were wiped out. Nice, eh?
What’s the point.
( Another, older operation. Bay of Pigs )
Anyways, after twenty years, the military bureaucracy finally responded and made the Special Operations Command, realizing that the failures were leadership, organizational.