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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A US operation infiltrated the home of Venezuela's president and captured him and his wife. A highly elite but secretive unit, Delta Force, led the extraction. Its previous operations ...
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The legacy of 'Eagle Claw': How failure helped build America's elite special forces
The rescue of two U.S. airmen in hostile territory is the direct legacy of Operation Eagle Claw's 1980 failure that forged modern Special Operations.
Operation Absolute Resolve in Venezuela involved over 150 aircraft with no American casualties reported. Delta Force captured Saddam Hussein in 2003 after months of intelligence work narrowed his location to a rural area near Tikrit. Operation Eagle Claw ...