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Desert One and the 1980 Disaster That Built Special Operations Command The failed 1980 rescue at Desert One killed eight servicemen and exposed a military that could not fight as one, and the reforms that followed fixed it. Beirut 1983 Was the First Lesson in How Iran Fights Through Proxies The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing killed 241 Americans and introduced deniable war through Hezbollah, and how America left Lebanon taught its enemies a lesson. Operation Praying Mantis and the Day the Navy Answered Iran in 1988 After an Iranian mine nearly sank a U.S. frigate in 1988, the Navy answered in a single day, and the story is a lesson in proportionate force. Iran's Nuclear Program From Natanz in 2002 to the JCPOA's End, a Timeline Two decades of Iran's nuclear program, dated and explained, showing a pattern of concealment discovered by outsiders and not volunteered by Tehran.