A Successful Rescue in Somalia and a Psychological Lift for America

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  January 25th at 03:00 PM  | 

Last night, a joint force from America’s Tier One special operations command conducted a raid on a pirate camp in Somalia, freeing two hostages – an American and a Dane – and killing their captors before exfiltrating north to Djibouti via helicopter. USA Today‘s lead paragraph captures the mission well, while also serving as the best recruiting pitch for the Navy’s Sea, Air, and Land | Read More »

Do Victory Laps and Spiking the Football outweigh Operational (and Personal) Security?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  May 13th at 05:13 PM  | 

This month’s successful kill/capture mission in Abbottabad, Pakistan, which resulted in the death of the World’s Most Wanted Terrorist and in the recovery of a treasure trove of intelligence (and of pornography – gotta love those radical fundamentalists’ aversion to hypocrisy!) has naturally increased national and media interest in the elite special operations professionals who carried out this operation. While the information being reported by | Read More »