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Special operations and irregular warfare are shaping the world’s future. Irregular forces sparked a regional war and are shutting down crucial shipping lanes as covert operations are attempting to influence elections. What is old is new: the inspiration for modern American special and covert operations originates in a previously untold Civil War story.
The objective of their mission, the kidnapping of Union Colonel Percy Wyndham was so daring and their destination of Fairfax, Virginia so guarded that “no one dreamed of the possibility of an enemy approaching them.” But The Grey Ghost, as the troublesome partisan leader would become known after the success of this mission, routinely aspired to what no one else dreamed possible.
As the general dressed, in a bit of psychological warfare, the Confederate scrawled on the wall with a piece of coal plucked from the fireplace the five letters which he had cultivated to strike fear in the heart of every Union soldier in Northern Virginia: M-O-S-B-Y. The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln’s Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby’s Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America’s Special Operationsthe irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War, including the story of Lincoln’s special forcesto hunt Mosby and his Confederate Rangers from 1863 to the war’s end at AppomattoxMosby, the thoughtful, bookish, 5’7”, 128-pound, clean-shaved, sandy-haired Virginian who had studied Latin and Greek at university before...
He returned to practicing law, was appointed consul of Hong Kong, and worked as a U.S. attorney for the Department of Justice. He used his positions to root out corruption, save the lives of trafficked women, and protect them as they immigrated to the United States. His influence extended even further to his time in San Gabriel, California, with a young George Patton, Jr on their family ranch.
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