"Now that the fighting is mostly over, we're dealing with those things that are harder to work through," said Captain Matt, a Special Forces team commander.

When another Special Forces commander reaches a forward base near the fighting, the author writes: "He was in.

At an operations center, a senior Special Forces commander, realizing that time was short, ordered an airstrike.

From the very beginning the Saudi rebels had been bemused by the forthright military opinions and questions ground out by the ex-French Special Forces commander.

And we took photographs of the French Special Forces commander who led the attack on the royal palace in Riyadh.

"Cellphones work fine on the first floor, if you want to talk to your family," the American Special Forces commander said.

The Special Forces commander raised his hand.

'Bloody hell,' cried the Special Forces commander.

Delta therefore represented a political threat in the minds of some Special Forces commanders.

Some Special Forces commanders wanted more firepower, like the AC-130 gunships that were withdrawn before the Rangers' arrival.