A-teams

Bush and Rumsfeld, and CIA Director George Tenet, deployed CIA agents and highly trained special forces "A-teams" to work with anti-Taliban tribes.

Obama's Half-Rumsfeld in Libya George Melloan 2011

The coordination of more than a score of such battalions, not to mention 45 Army Special Forces A-teams, Marine special-ops units, and so on, all involved in some aspect of counterinsurgency, is less the job of McChrystal than that of Lieutenant General David M. Rodriguez, like McChrystal and Kolenda a West Point graduate, who heads the ISAF Joint Command.

Man Versus Afghanistan 2010

The coordination of more than a score of such battalions, not to mention 45 Army Special Forces A-teams, Marine special-ops units, and so on, all involved in some aspect of counterinsurgency, is less the job of McChrystal than that of Lieutenant General David M. Rodriguez, like McChrystal and Kolenda a West Point graduate, who heads the ISAF Joint Command.

Man Versus Afghanistan 2010

Colonel Wheeler made the point that in future conflicts conventional assets like the B-2 and fast-attack submarines would be used in tandem with Predator drones, Special Forces A-teams, and Marine Corps platoons.

The Plane That Would Bomb Iran 2007

Colonel Wheeler made the point that in future conflicts conventional assets like the B-2 and fast-attack submarines would be used in tandem with Predator drones, Special Forces A-teams, and Marine Corps platoons.

The Plane That Would Bomb Iran 2007

A-teams and HALO drops will not lend themselves to congressional interference and debate, which partisan politicians are sure to attempt.

Letters to the Editor 2006

To stop them, four six-man Green Beret A-teams were given the mission of holding a bridge astride the route.

Inside The Invasion 2008

A-teams and HALO drops will not lend themselves to congressional interference and debate, which partisan politicians are sure to attempt.

Letters to the Editor 2006

The Special Forces A-teams were the shock troops of the U.S. assault on the Taliban.

The Death Convoy Of Afghanistan 2007

The climax of the brief campaign began on Nov. 4, when the Northern Alliance launched a three-pronged assault on the major city in the north, Mazar-e Sharif, orchestrated and micromanaged by an assembly of Special Forces, including two A-teams. 595 members had been with Dostum at the surrender negotiations, and then again at the actual surrender at Yerganak.

The Death Convoy Of Afghanistan 2007