TY - BOOK AU - O'Rourke, Ronald TI - Navy Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism Operations: : Background and Issues for Congress PY - 2015/// PB - Congressional Research Service KW - Terrorismo KW - Prevención KW - Estados Unidos de América KW - U.S Navy N2 - The Navy for several years has carried out a variety of irregular warfare (IW) and counterterrorism (CT) activities. Among the most readily visible of the Navy’s recent IW operations have been those carried out by Navy sailors serving ashore in Afghanistan and Iraq. Many of the Navy’s contributions to IW operations around the world are made by Navy individual augmentees (IAs)—individual Navy sailors assigned to various Department of Defense (DOD) operations. The May 1-2, 2011, U.S. military operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed Osama bin Laden reportedly was carried out by a team of 23 Navy special operations forces, known as SEALs (an acronym standing for Sea, Air, and Land). The SEALs reportedly belonged to an elite unit known unofficially as Seal Team 6 and officially as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) UR - http://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS22373.pdf ER -