HOW TO PRACTICE

On May 2, 2011, members of the United States Special Forces landed under cover of night at a strange and heavily bunkered compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. You know by now how things panned out. The nation’s bravest and best-trained soldiers ably executed a dangerous and critical mission culminating in the death of Osama bin Laden and—at least as important it turns out—the capture of reams of information that have compromised al-Qaeda operations around the globe. The raid constitutes a bright spot for our military forces and our nation. In some ways we take the sort of flawless execution we imagine from the SEAL team members who landed that night for granted. They are our best and our brightest, our most indefatigable, and trained ...

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