THEY came in under cover of darkness, smashed Venezuela’s air defences, and lifted a dictator out of his bedroom in minutes.

Delta Force is one of the US Army’s most elite units—a team used for high-profile insertion missions, most often at night.

The Army unit tasked with extracting Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela rehearsed the mission using a model compound in Kentucky, ...

Key Points and Summary - A former Army journalist recounts his personal brushes with the special operations world, which led to a deep dive into the U.S. Army's Delta Force, also known as Combat ...