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  • Cybercrime special-ops unit Section 9 has been mobilized to protect a key witness in a trial involving defective micro machines.

    Dark Horse Title Shipping in December | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • Within 2 ½ weeks, U.S. special-ops forces were on the ground in Afghanistan.

    Brave Hearth 2010

  • A new debate over AfghanistanThe issue has divided the Obama administration from the start: Whether to pursue a broad counter-insurgency strategy aimed at increasing public security, building civil institutions and installing a stable government — tasks likely to require thousands of ground troops — or a more targeted counter-terrorism strategy that aims at suspected terrorists, often using special-ops and drone attacks.

    Poll: With bin Laden dead, is it time to end war? 2011

  • The coordination of more than a score of such battalions, not to mention 45 Army Special Forces A-teams, Marine special-ops units, and so on, all involved in some aspect of counterinsurgency, is less the job of McChrystal than that of Lieutenant General David M. Rodriguez, like McChrystal and Kolenda a West Point graduate, who heads the ISAF Joint Command.

    Man Versus Afghanistan 2010

  • We need to get out of Afghanistan and only run special-ops missions when we get intelligence on locations of insurgents or activity in the Kyber Pass.

    Indian prime minister arrives at White House 2009

  • A new debate over AfghanistanThe issue has divided the Obama administration from the start: Whether to pursue a broad counter-insurgency strategy aimed at increasing public security, building civil institutions and installing a stable government — tasks likely to require thousands of ground troops — or a more targeted counter-terrorism strategy that aims at suspected terrorists, often using special-ops and drone attacks.

    Poll: With bin Laden dead, is it time to end war? 2011

  • "It's boys being boys, killing bad guys, blowing s--t up, stealing cars and jumping out of choppers," says Stapleton, who relished the action and was put through a grueling boot camp in order to emulate the real special-ops unit Delta Force.

    Strike Back Explodes Onto Cinemax 2011

  • The unmanned LEMV will reduce the need for risky special-ops reconnaissance missions by staying “on station” at 20,000 feet for three weeks, with high-resolution cameras and sensors that can backtrack from an explosion to find who planted the bomb, and where they went.

    Dirigible Dreams 2010

  • "The special-ops community is very tight-knit," said Richard "Ozzie" Nelson, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former Navy officer who served at JSOC.

    Elite Force Died in Bid to Save Comrades Dion Nissenbaum 2011

  • The unmanned LEMV will reduce the need for risky special-ops reconnaissance missions by staying “on station” at 20,000 feet for three weeks, with high-resolution cameras and sensors that can backtrack from an explosion to find who planted the bomb, and where they went.

    Dirigible Dreams 2010

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