Off-duty members of Delta Force, an elite unit of the U.S. Army, escort General Norman Schwarzkopf in 1991 during the first Gulf War. (Credit: Staff Sergeant Dean W. Wagner/Wikicommons)
In just two hours and 28 minutes, the American army's top-secret elite Delta Force soldiers landed a fleet of helicopters at a healthy fortified military compound in Caracas, located Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, handcuffed him and his wife and loaded them onto a U.S. warship.This Jan. 3 attack — dubbed "Operation Absolute Resolve" — took the world by surprise, but the Delta Force soldiers are no stranger to operations of this scale and complexity. Counterterrorism, hostage rescue, high-profile assassinations… several of these carried out in the Middle East.So, what do we know about Delta Force?The force was jointly created on Nov. 19, 1977, by U.S. Army Special Forces officers Charles Beckwith and Thomas Henry, in the context of rising international terrorism and criticism of the American military establishment...
In just two hours and 28 minutes, the American army's top-secret elite Delta Force soldiers landed a fleet of helicopters at a healthy fortified military compound in Caracas, located Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, handcuffed him and his wife and loaded them onto a U.S. warship.This Jan. 3 attack — dubbed "Operation Absolute Resolve" — took the world by surprise, but the Delta Force soldiers are no stranger to operations of this scale and complexity. Counterterrorism, hostage rescue, high-profile assassinations… several of these carried out in the Middle East.So, what do we know about Delta Force?The force was jointly created on Nov. 19, 1977, by U.S. Army Special Forces officers Charles Beckwith and Thomas Henry, in the context of rising international terrorism and criticism of the American military...
