Stupid Questions
Laleh Khalili: Battlefield to Boardroom, 24 February 2022
Risk: A User’s Guide
by Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico.
Penguin, 343 pp., £20, October 2021,978 0 241 48192 9 Show More
by Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico.
Penguin, 343 pp., £20, October 2021,
“... The origin myth of today’s US special forces is the Iran hostage crisis of 1979. A group of college students had seized the US embassy in Tehran, demanding the extradition of the shah to stand trial in Iran. In an attempt to rescue the 52 US diplomats and military officers in the building, the Pentagon flew Delta Force troops in a C-130 transport aircraft from an island off Oman to the Great Salt Desert near the town of Tabas, where they were to meet helicopters launched from the USS Nimitz in the Arabian Sea ... ”
