reveals the recently declassified details of the U.S. Government's secret war against the international drug cartels and narcoterrorists. Readers learn the true story of the U.S. military's involvement in fighting the organized drug trade through the author's many revelations of secret military operations around the world. Included are details on operations involving U.S. Navy SEAL teams and other U.S. forces engaged in combat with armies of drug barons and mercenaries equipped with state-of- the-art weaponry. Based on true accounts of the U.S. Government's secret war on drugs shows how more than 60 of the world's 173 constituted nations as well as the world's major banks and corporations are directly involved with drug trafficking.
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A fictionalized argument for using the US military and, more particularly, Navy SEALS to attack the drug trade at its source--in Central and South America--by former Naval officer Knopf. After a SEAL team sinks a boat on the Amazon carrying some $250 million in cocaine, the drug cartels strike back with a terrorist bombing in Virginia, killing over 200 civilians. Stung by the size and audacity of the event, the US government unleashes a far-flung campaign to kill drug lords, disrupt and destroy drug shipments, and bloody the guerrilla groups who provide protection and troops for the drug trade. Most of the novel is taken up with the specifics of the campaign, including the delicate maneuvering between federal agencies and the military, the coordination between nations (Israel goes after the drug trade in Lebanon), the careful preparation of strike teams, and the action itself. A heated plea for unleashing the military to solve the drug problem. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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A "wannabee" without real knowledge or experience,
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This review is from: Illusion or Victory: How the U.S. Navy Seals Win America's Failing War on Drugs (Hardcover)
The storyline is quite fanciful. The many factual errors concerning US Navy SEAL organization, operations, equipment, and training reveal that the author's background could not be as stated.The strategy expounded ("Head of the Hydra") is unworkable. The author fails to understand that the essential nature of organized crime is organization. Eliminating the heads of the drug trafficing organizations will not stop their operations.
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tried hard to like it,
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This review is from: Illusion or Victory: How the U.S. Navy Seals Win America's Failing War on Drugs (Hardcover)
Gave up about half way thru. Great premise and some good details but the anti-drug ranting just became WAY too much. The author is on a personal crusade against drugs of the South American variety and it really comes thru in the writing. Continuous moralizing about how all drugs are evil and the US, actually the world, is about to collapse because of the War on Drugs, but it's OK when all of the good characters drink alcohol. eg - when the FBI agents meet and get crocked.Author annoyingly, and for no reason, keeps bringing up a backstory about Modular Products as if he's trying to set the background for his next novel. Many typos and errors - was this a first draft that no one proof read? Glaring technical errors that an author with friends in law enforcement should know: p90 - .357 bullets can penetrate a car's engine block, p33 and p26 - M16s with "40 round" magazines. Too many analogies of how SEALs are like NFL players and can all bench press 400 pounds - HA!. Also, for a guy that supposedly was in BUD/S, he says Hell Week was 7 days - it's really 5. p26 - the SEALs wear "dark jungle striped" camo! Another goof. Tried hard to like it but the moralizing and faulty details really turned me off.
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tried really hard to like it,
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This review is from: Illusion or Victory: How the U.S. Navy Seals Win America's Failing War on Drugs (Hardcover)
The anti-drug moralizing forced me to stop reading it as did MANY technical goofs - 2 times where the author described M16s as having 40 round magazines, that a .357 Mag could penetrate a car's engine block, that most SEALs are built like NFL players and can bench 400 pounds.Drugs are evil but every good character in the book gets crocked on booze. Lots of typos and errors. This was like reading a first draft.
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