Lochaber's role in training commandos is recalled in a statue near Spean Bridge.
Members of the special forces in the east were among the first to defect, and American officials now envision a new, properly trained commando force as the core around which to rebuild the Libyan military.
"The Dirty Dozen" performed a similar debunking operation on a larger scale, recasting the tightly trained commando units of World War II propaganda movies as a gang of unruly, unbalanced convicts and miscreants, plucked from various military prisons and sent on a sordid suicide mission.
Here one has control over a small group of highly trained commandos, each with very specific skills.
"These were not your scared suicide bomber boys from the villages, these were well trained commandos," the diplomat said.
Third, the site asserts that the Pentagon employs a secret task force of highly trained commandos charged with capturing or killing insurgent leaders.
Mr. Saleh and his relatives control most of the government's top military and intelligence posts, and have access to more sophisticated weaponry and highly trained commandos.
They created code words, and recruited, after careful screening, highly trained commandos and operatives from America's élite forces — Navy seals, the Army's Delta Force, and the C.I.A.'s paramilitary experts.
"We also trained commandos for a possible ground action," Mr. Clinton said, "but we did not have the necessary intelligence to do it in the way we would have had to do it then.
"The U.S. military," he writes, "showed in Afghanistan that a combination of highly trained commandos and precision weaponry — a high-low mix of technologies — could subdue, at least temporarily, even a land renowned as the graveyard of empires".
