THE OPS DESK
HOW TACTICAL AIRCRAFT AND SPECIAL FORCES TAKE DOWN THE WORLD’S MOST WANTED
BRINGING YOU THE LATEST TALK FROM AROUND THE SQUADRONS
IMAGINE FOR A moment you’re one of a nation’s elite soldiers, assigned to a famed special mission unit. Perhaps you’ve been part of this particular organization for more than a decade, with multiple deployments all over the world, and hundreds of low-visibility, high-risk operations under your belt. You’re getting ready to embark on an assignment which could potentially define your career, and both your success or failure could have global repercussions.
The objective this time is one of the world’s most-wanted terrorists, and your unit has been given the task of bringing that person to justice. Anyone can clear rooms and kill bad dudes, but you can’t get information from a corpse. A breathing, talking individual can be a treasure-trove of information. The mission brief includes the words ‘capture or kill’, but you have a good idea, given the nature of your target, that capture won’t be an option.
Intelligence for the mission is provided from a variety of very capable, credible sources, and has been flowing in for several weeks. You and your team-mates have been …
