Navy Seals: suggestions de lecture

Vous serez sans doute pas étonné de la parution de deux livres sur les désormais célèbres Navy seals. On présente un bon topo sur les deux bouquins (The heart and the fis et Seal team six) dans le NY Times. Je vous laisse également le lien pour le site des Navy seals: http://www.sealswcc.com/swcc-default.aspx

They are America’s Jedi knights: the elite of the elite, an all-star team of commandos, “tier one” special operations warriors given mission-impossible assignments in the most dangerous parts of the planet. A week ago, when Seal Team 6 took out public enemy No. 1, Osama bin Laden, Jon Stewart hailed its members as real-life “X-Men,” ABC compared them to Superman, and Newsweek described them as “the coolest guys in the world,” working “anonymously and without public recognition.” Each year, according to the Navy Seals Web site, about 1,000 men start Seals training, and usually about only 200 to 250 succeed. Basic training includes the infamous “hell week”: five and a half days in which candidates sleep only a total of four hours and must run more than 200 miles, and do physical training for more than 20 hours per day. And after years of more training, only a fraction of experienced Seals members go on to join Seal Team 6, a secret unit created after the failed attempt in 1980 to rescue American hostages in Iran and tasked mainly with counterterrorism and counterinsurgency assignments.

Le lien pour l'article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/books/seal-team-six-and-the-heart-and-the-fist-reviews.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28