Mark Urban -- Defense Editor at the BBC and author of a history of the Special Air Services (SAS) in Operation Iraqi Freedom -- has an interesting article on the role of British special forces in topping Qaddafi.
Although Urban is vague regarding the British role in the manhunt for the deposed Libyan strongman, he provides details of the policy debates within Prime Minister Cameron's cabinet over the deployment of special units (including the back story of how the super-elite "E Squadron" was "captured" near Benghazi), and illustrates the variety of ways these forces conduct modern irregular warfare (i.e. both direct targeting and foreign internal defense), something to be considered in the coming debates on strategy and force structure here in the United States
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