A definitive account of the top secret "dark of the moon" forays deep into North Korea.
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Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War,
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This review is from: Darkmoon: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War (Naval Institute Special Warfare) (Hardcover)
This book, along with its companion in the series, "Raiders on the China Coast" gives a lot of information about the history of the U.S. Army Special Forces in the Far East during the 1950's. Much of why we ended up so heavily involved in Vietnam can be better understand with the light of this information. The U.S. by the time of the Vietnam War occured had a long history of covertly fighting Communism in the Far East. In this book Mr. Evanhoe modestly says little about himself, but gives many details of the heroic behind the lines operations and sacrifices of these Korean, U.S., and British special forces personnel. He explains how personnel were selected, trained, and supportedly logistically... of the sacrifices and the costs that occured when they were actually conducted. He gives accounts of where the operations were based and how the locations for these bases were chosen. This is possible because Mr. Evanhoe is writing from the perspective from someone on at a high level on the Allied Joint Staff who was planning and supervising these operations. Even today, the U.S. military is still involved in the Korean Theater of Operations. This book gives useful information for someone to develop an informed perspective to make better foreign policy decisions there. Hopefully, the quality of the committment of those serving in the future for us in this part of the world and representing our interests there will measure up to the glorious legacy of the people in this book.
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Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War,
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This review is from: Darkmoon: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War (Naval Institute Special Warfare) (Hardcover)
This book, along with its companion in the series, "Raiders on the South China Coast" gives a lot of information about the history of the U.S. Army Special Forces in the Far East during the 1950's. Much of why we ended up so heavily involved in Vietnam can be better understand with the light of this information. The U.S. by the time of the Vietnam War occured had a long history of covertly fighting Communism in the Far East. In this book Mr. Evanhoe modestly says little about himself, but gives many details of the heroic behind the lines operations and sacrifices of these Korean, U.S., and British special forces personnel. He explains how personnel were selected, trained, and supportedly logistically... of the sacrifices and the costs that occured when they were actually conducted. He gives accounts of where the operations were based and these locations chosen. This is possible because Mr. Evanhoe is writing from the perspective from someone who has personal knowledge of conducting intelligence operations for several years while in the U.S. Army in the Far East. Even today, the U.S. military is still involved in the Korean Theater of Operations. This book gives useful information for someone to develop an informed perspective to make better foreign policy decisions there. Hopefully, the quality of the committment of those serving in this part of the world in the future for us and representing our interests will measure up to the glorious legacy of the people in this book.
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