In reply to UKC/UKH Articles:
Very good, thanks UKC.
There have been some interesting intersections between war and climbers over the years. WW2 in the Alps is an obvious one, but Khampa guerillas (Tibetans living in Nepal) were trained by Americans to do cross-border raids into China in the 60s and 70s.
A few well-known US climbers (Jim Whittaker etc) were training the military in Alaska in the 60s, including on the south face of Denali, which was part of the eventual placement of the nuclear-powered devices on Nanda Devi and Nanda Kot.
Other US climbers, like Jay Smith and Mark Twight, have made good money training and guiding US Seal teams and others in recent times.
During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, trained climbers were used for operations in the Hindu Kush. The very successful Georgian mountaineer Ilias Tukhvatullin once had to climb up a mountain, to a crashed helicopter, to recover top secret documents.