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Old 04-24-2020, 02:00 PM   #38
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Captain Crunch can probably expand on this in much more detail than I can, but a couple of modern military failures:

- Munich Olympic Massacre - Poorly trained police response and communication challenges led to the death of a large portion of Israeli athletes. Silver lining though is that this led to the creation of the German GSG9, one of the world's most elite counter terrorism units

- Aborted Iranian embassy rescue - This was the US attempt and not the famous SAS rescue. Poor equipment, desert sandstorms, and pretty much anything that could go wrong did, as the US were forced to abort the mission when over half of the raiding force was lost before even entering the environment. Led to the creation of SOAR, the US special operations air regiment

- Black Hawk Down, the Somali incident. Poor communications, delayed top down coordination, and intelligence failure led to a company of US forces trapped overnight in Mogadishu surrounded by a hostile city

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