20 March 2003: The first wave of coalition helicopters carrying Royal Marines from 42 Commando and the elite Brigade Reconnaissance Force (BRF) flew across the night sky from their base in Kuwait to support their fellow Marines of 40 Commando, who had landed on Iraq’s Al Faw peninsula from the sea and were securing strategic oil and gas installations there.
A version of this article appeared in the November 2010 issue of Harvard Business Review.
