Have the terrorist learned SOCOM's playbook?

via FoxNews.

The American freelance photographer kidnapped by Al Qaeda militants in Yemen in 2013 was 'murdered' Friday during a U.S. special operations rescue mission inside the country after it was learned that his life was in imminent danger, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said in a statement.
Luke Somers was still alive, but badly injured when the team reached him, a Yemeni national security official told Fox News. The official said Somers was shot by militants. None of the special forces members were injured.

A try doesn't matter.  The only thing that matters is failure or success.  A hostage rescue was attempted and it failed.

This is the second rescue attempt in the past few months that I've heard about that ended in failure.

The question must be asked.  Have the terrorist learned SOCOM's playbook?  If they have then what does that mean?  Remember it usually flows like this.  First the enemy evades, then he resists and finally he attacks.

We've gone through the evasion and resistance phase.  How soon before the enemy decides to setup an ambush for our Special Operations Forces?

I sense a Blackhawk down incident coming.  Over reliance on SOCOM, mixed with operational arrogance, driven by the desire to get a "win" and show military strength by politicians will lead to heartache.

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