SEAL Team Six in Somalia

I don't have much to add to the news of SEAL Team Six's rescue of American relief worker Jessica Buchanan and her Danish colleague Tuesday night other than "Wow!"  But for those in need of a SOF-porn fix, you can find accounts of the raid in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the USA Today.  Additionally, Bill Roggio places the operation in perspective relative to previous SOF missions in Somalia, and Danger Room looks at the future of such operations in East Africa.

Okay, one quick thought.  Although Obama administration officials are touting the mission as a hallmark of future U.S. military missions envisioned by the administration's defense strategy review, Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe correctly point out that "a mission against lightly armed and poorly trained criminals in a largely lawless region of Somalia may not provide a useful model in parts of the world where modern militaries make such actions far more complex and potentially deadly." 

The SEAL's execution of this operation was remarkable in its own right (and almost seems straight out of "Act of Valor"), and doesn't require embellish or politicization.