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Unfortunately many innocent people do fall victims of covert operations, the whole good versus bad, morals and stuff is cinema content.

The actual ops on the field is very wide gray spectrum, and one of the reasons so many are traumatised upon return to civil life.

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The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp covers this well. JSOC basically runs an around-the-clock global assassination squad where innocents, family members, and children are killed with intent. Then they come home and try to fit in with a less murder-acclimated population.

That is both not true and not what is in the book.

The focus is the drugs and domestic murders, but JSOC's practices are detailed (daily night raids, low threshold for targeting, low accuracy) and give background to how everyone involved became so broken.

Which is not even in the same ballpark as what you originally wrote.

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