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Project Alpha: Washington's Secret Military Operations in North Vietnam

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Thank you Sedgwick Tourison for shedding light on a group of South Vietnamese patriots I would have never otherwise known about. They truly paid a heavy price for their patriotism. I wish to God that some of their North Vietnamese captors could have been on the receiving end of the Geneva Convention.

South Vietnamese special agents trained and parachuted behind North Vietnamese lines
this book takes you through the training, and development of these South Vietnamese
Alpha teams and takes you through the fates of each as North vietnamese intelegence
members were captured latter in the war who intercepted them. The author has
done the Vietnamese community a great community service in being able to explain the
fate of missing family members who were lost in these opperations. This is a trajic tale.

Of course there are secret operations; every country and military has them. But guess what, US Military "Secret Operations" in Vietnam is an oxymoron just like the term "Military Intelligence". Screwed up from day one, the various hare-brained schemes of the ninty-day wonders and fast-rising young turks in Saigon swiftly became more and more silly, more compromised, and eventually, worthless. This book is well written, informative and gives those of us who were in Vietnam an insight into one more reason we were not able to win the war. If you have any interest in how military secret operations are done these days, read this book. They may have tried to do a "Operation Double Cross" like the British did so well in 1940, but internecine politics, inter-service rivalry, and just plain pig-headedness got in the way. Buy the book and read it, now! That's An Order, Soldier!

I really enjoyed this book. It was very informative.