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This study explores why military operations conducted by the USA in recent years to achieve key foreign policy objectives have failed. It includes reports, based extensively on primary material, of the Bay of Pigs, the Sontay raid, the Mayaguez operation and the Iran hostage rescue attempt.

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Special forces (Military science) --- Counterinsurgency --- Guerrilla warfare --- Irregular warfare --- History --- IW (Irregular warfare) --- Unconventional warfare --- War --- Insurgency --- Counterguerrilla warfare --- Special force troops --- Special operations forces (Military science) --- Commando troops --- Military art and science --- Special operations (Military science)

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A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make-or destroy-the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the emperor and his family. As the centuries unfolded, however, Praetorian soldiers served not only as protectors and enforcers but also as powerful political players. Fiercely loyal to some emperors, they vied with others and ruthlessly toppled those who displeased them, including Caligula, Nero, Pertinax, and many more. Guy de la Bédoyère provides a compelling first full narrative history of the Praetorians, whose dangerous ambitions ceased only when Constantine permanently disbanded them. de la Bédoyère introduces Praetorians of all echelons, from prefects and messengers to artillery experts and executioners. He explores the delicate position of emperors for whom prestige and guile were the only defenses against bodyguards hungry for power. Folding fascinating details into a broad assessment of the Praetorian era, the author sheds new light on the wielding of power in the greatest of the ancient world's empires.

Praetorian Guard --- Special forces (Military science) --- Prétoriens --- Forces spéciales (Science militaire) --- History --- Histoire --- Rome --- Army --- History. --- Armée --- HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. --- HISTORY / Military / Other. --- Praetorian Guard. --- Prétoriens --- Forces spéciales (Science militaire) --- Armée --- Special force troops --- Special operations forces (Military science) --- Commando troops --- Counterinsurgency --- Guerrilla warfare --- Military art and science --- Special operations (Military science) --- Cohors praetoria --- Praetorians --- Guards troops

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The generation that reached maturity in the inter war years had grown up in the shadow of the heroic age of Polar exploration and the sacrifices of a generation in the Great War. Their own adventures were to prove as astonishing and heroic as those of a previous generation. The members of the British Arctic air route expedition to Greenland, including Martin Lindsay, Quintin Riley and Freddie Spencer Chapman, were to pioneer the weather research methods necessary for Trans-Atlantic Flight. The university expeditions to Spitsbergen led by George Binney in the 1920s and Sandy Glen in the 1930s t

Explorers --- Special forces (Military science) --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Discovery & Exploration --- Special force troops --- Special operations forces (Military science) --- Commando troops --- Counterinsurgency --- Guerrilla warfare --- Military art and science --- Special operations (Military science) --- Discoverers --- Navigators --- Voyagers --- Adventure and adventurers --- Heroes --- Discoveries in geography --- History

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Genocide --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Latin America --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Crime --- History --- Guatemala. --- Guatemala --- Atrocities. --- Gvatemala --- Goatemala --- Republic of Guatemala --- República de Guatemala --- Central America (Federal Republic) --- Genocidio --- State crimes --- Special forces (Military science) --- Special force troops --- Special operations forces (Military science) --- Commando troops --- Counterinsurgency --- Guerrilla warfare --- Military art and science --- Special operations (Military science) --- Crimes committed by states --- State-sponsored crimes --- Historia --- Atrocidades.