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To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda
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To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda
By
Derek Leebaert
Sieving through Western military history, Leebaert seeks out principles of the special operation. Commencing with the Trojan horse and continuing to today\'s special-forces organizations, Leebaert\'s treatment inherently becomes a skein of wild war stories that nonetheless are linked by similarities. So the work will simultaneously seize the interest of general readers and the analytical attention of military professionals. The latter will muse on Leebaert\'s distillation of what distinguishes the special operation--namely, that it comprises an attempt to exploit an opponent\'s ignorance or complacency about his vulnerabilities. Since it requires subterfuge to produce a force appearing apparently from nowhere, unconventional attacks, as Leebaert chronicles them through time and technological development, usually spring from eccentrics unsuited to regimental thinking: they might have been hooligans or scholars during peacetime. Leebaert\'s wide-ranging scholarship introduces both the famous and the less-renowned figures influential in the history of special operations.
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