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| Introduction | |
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| A Precarious Value | |
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| The U.S. Army's Special Forces | |
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| Underwater Demolition Teams and SEALs | |
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| Air Commandos and the U.S. Air Force | |
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| Into the Abyss: SOF and the Post-Vietnam Era | |
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| Survival of a Precarious Value | |
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| Building an Organizational Culture | |
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| Selection, Training, and Assessment: Navy SEALs | |
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| Special Forces: Innovation in the Face of Uncertainty | |
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| Flip Corkin and the Air Commandos | |
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| Maintaining a Distinctive Organization | |
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| Protecting a Precarious Value | |
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| Naval Special Warfare: Reconnecting to the Fleet | |
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| Surviving the 1970s | |
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| The Tragedy of Desert One | |
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| Revitalizing Special Operations: First Steps | |
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| Air Force Special Operations and Desert One | |
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| Hopes Rise: The Struggle for Reform | |
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| Congressional Support Grows | |
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| Protecting a Still-Precarious Value | |
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| Urgent Fury | |
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| Legislating Change | |
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| Building the Case for Reform on Capitol Hill | |
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| Inside the Pentagon | |
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| Going Public | |
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| Heading toward Legislated Reform | |
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| Loss of a General | |
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| Department of Defense: Too Little, Too Late | |
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| Division on the Hill | |
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| Nunn-Cohen Amendment to the 1986 Defense Reorganization Act | |
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| The New Bureaucrats | |
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| Setting Up Shop | |
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| Washington, D.C., or the Ends of the Earth? | |
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| Who Are Special Operations Forces? | |
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| Special Operations Command Begins Work | |
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| The New Special Operations Bureaucrats | |
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| Malicious Implementation? | |
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| Implementation | |
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| Confusion and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense | |
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| Secretary Marsh and the First Confirmed ASD (SOLIC) | |
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| Capitol Hill Comes to the Pentagon | |
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| Peacetime Engagement | |
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| A Special Operator's War - Operation Just Cause | |
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| Operation Promote Liberty | |
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| Who's in Charge? | |
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| The Fight to Control Resources | |
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| The Department of Defense | |
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| Controlling SOF Resources | |
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| The View from USSOCOM | |
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| Congress Says "Enough" | |
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| Desert Shield and Desert Storm | |
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| SOF Integration with Conventional Forces | |
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| Desert Storm | |
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| The End of the War and Operation Provide Comfort | |
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| Moving Forward | |
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| The Collapse of the Berlin Wall and the New World Disorder | |
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| Special Operations Forces Today | |
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| Guaranteeing a Future | |
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| A Road Map | |
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| Service Concerns versus Operational Concerns | |
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| The Risks to SOF Organizational Culture | |
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| Protecting a Precarious Value | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |