After heavy editing by the MoD and Foreign Office, the story of this secret war was revealed in "SAS Operation Oman", written by the SAS commander, Colonel Tony Jeapes. Still used as a textbook at the Army Staff College, Camberley, it reveals how small teams of elite soldiers took on a dedicated guerrilla army and destroyed it. While the US Army was losing its very public war in Vietnam, the SAS fought in complete secrecy, saving the Omani regime and preventing Soviet-backed guerrillas from seizing control of the Persian Gulf. MoD restrictions are now lifted, enabling Tony Jeapes to reveal key details he was forced to omit in 1980.
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Tony Jeapes was the first SAS officer to reach the rank of General. He commanded the British forces in Northern Ireland during the 1980s and retired as commander UK land forces.
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I am so pleased this book was written.,
By Ned Middleton (British professional underwater photo-journalist & author) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
This review is from: SAS Secret War (Paperback)
When I left 22 SAS in 1971, it was to commence my very first tour of duty in N. Ireland. At that time, elements of that particular regiment were fighting a little-known, and barely covered in the UK press!, war in Muscat and Oman. As I stood at the barracks gates in Hereford waiting for my taxi, a dear friend who was one of a small number of Fijian members of the regiment turned up in an open desert Landrover and drove me to the station. It was his way of saying farewell. He was a giant of a man in more ways than one and, as he dropped me off en route to my first operational tour of duty, I was already aware that he would soon be back in Oman undertaking what was for him, yet another! That man was Corporal Labalaba and the following year he died in heroic circumstances along with a colleague at Mirbat.Author Tony Jeapes joined the SAS in Malaya in 1958 and won an MC in Oman in 1959. He later commanded 22 SAS Regiment for which he earned the OBE. Next he commanded the British Airborne Brigade and later still was appointed Commander Land Forces in Northern Ireland in the rank of Major General. It was at that time that I actually met him and was able to introduce him to some of his old diving buddies from around the Province. By now it was 1990 and I was completing my 7th year of duty there. Oh, how little had changed in those 20 years! This author has provided a history of a campaign that, even now, is never mentioned on Remembrance Sunday when most vicars, priests and padres try to recall as many campaigns as possible in addition to those two world wars. Muscat and Oman was a campaign which was ignored throughout its duration and forgotten just as soon as it was completed. This is the first-hand account that needed to be written and I am so very pleased that, not only was it written, but it had been produced by one who understood this particular conflict as well as any man. Altogether a must for amateur and professional historians alike. NM
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