ons during large-scale combat. It i

ons during large-scale combat. It is organized chronologically, using the period encompassing World War I as a starting point. From then to today, the reader will observe how the idea of special operations formed into organizations that have now become a key part of our fighting doctrine. While the discreet, sensitive, and often spectacular missions are informative themselves, the real lessons to observe are how divisions, corps, and armies combined their conventional effects with those of the special operators. Those instances of synergy—the operational synergy that resulted from those combined arms teams—generated powerful dynamics for maneuver that could be applied to future maneuver warfare.