“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.
Where is the comparison? You listed Son Tay as an example in context of our military failures due to malaise or decay, I said that the Son Tay raid was a success by the military, we raided two compounds, killed perhaps a couple of hundred of the enemy and didn't lose a man, although no prisoners were inside the taken compounds I have always seen Son Tay as one of the great raids in history.
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