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About one GOE operation:
"Another time, the team went to a G camp and posed as Gs from another area. After a week of spending time with this group, they got up early one morning and slit every throat in the camp. More than thirty Gs were killed."

Nevermind, it was the army. Got it mixed up in the narrative.

The last bit was about the guerrillas.

"Of the five Hughes 500 choppers they got from us, only one was lost to ground fire. The rest went down because of pilot error and, at the end of it all, only one survived the war."

"As an aside, I was rather disappointed to find that the troops were admirers of the American movie hero and cult figure Rambo. Even among the peasants of remotest South America, the junk-culture prevailed. It was ubiquitous, inescapable."
Also, the campesinos were more hostile to Marxism than the priests, as to them, Marxism = Atheism. Simple as.

"In particular, while an individualist and libertarian, Nock welcomed the Soviet revolution as a successful overthrow of a frozen and reactionary State apparatus."
That doesn't endear me to Nock.

One Russian helicopter pilot tasked with supplying Coalition bases in Afghanistan along with his entire crew died because an American base commander refused to let him spend the night at the base, forcing him to take off in hazardous weather.

In general, the war was not fought offensively enough and the Coalition was too secretive, says Nellis.

"Eventually, the Hind was causing so much damage that the rebel command upped the price on Nellis’ head to US$2 million. Australian broadcaster Mark Corcoran reported that he saw a message addressed to the merc pilot saying that ‘if we ever catch you, we’ll cut your heart out and eat it’. Of course, that sort of thing appealed to Nellis. He was actually a little flattered and would quietly chuckle to himself."

"His [Nellis] logbook shows that in eight weeks he clocked more than 130 combat missions. Pilots in the majority of the world’s air forces—unless they are in a major war—rarely see that much action during the course of their careers."