‘We Own the Night’: The Rise And Fall Of The US Military’s Night-Vision Dominance

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‘We Own the Night’: The Rise And Fall Of The US Military’s Night-Vision Dominance
By Adam K. Raymond
on July 11, 2017


The sky was moonless on the night of May 1, 2011, as two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters flew toward a walled compound in an upscale enclave of Abbottabad, Pakistan. A power outage further drenched the city in blackness.

To the 23 Navy SEALs fast-roping to the ground, the conditions could not have been better. Under the cover of darkness, they crept toward the home of the world’s most wanted man and stormed inside.

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