“Surprise, kill, and vanish,” motto of the World War II Jedburgh teams, captures the essence of how units successfully operated in a location comparable to a modern-day police state.

The latest JSOU Press occasional paper, In Denied Areas: Lessons from the British Special Operations Executive and Jedburghs by Major Mark Thomas and Benjamin Jensen, PhD, thoughtfully explores how through proper preparation of environment and communications security, the Jedburghs’ mission—infiltrating deep into Nazi-occupied France to support the allied Normandy invasion—offers important historical examples for battlefield survival still applicable today.

In Denied Areas: Lessons from the British Special Operations Executive and Jedburghs

By Major Mark Thomas and Benjamin Jensen, PhD

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