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Special Operations Forces and Enemy Ground Targets: Lessons from Vietnam and the Persian Gulf War

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Don't set aside too much for this one. Calling this report a book is a bit generous, more like a bound two part magazine article. I wrote longer papers in college. With that rant out of the way what about the "book". Lacking would sum it up in one word. Basically the level of detail here would be two good chapters in a larger book, there just was not enough meat. The authors give a high level overview of Special Forces operations in two similar missions in the Vietnam and Gulf War. Really though it covered only one operation from each war. In Vietnam it covered operations on locating transport trucks on the Ho Chi Min trail and in the Gulf War it covered the scud hunt in the desert.

It is not so much that the author did not bite off enough of a subject to write a decent book, but what he did produce was far two high to be anything other than an overview. Again it seamed like this was the opening chapters to a more detailed book on the subjects. Not to be too negative, the author did have a good writing style that was easy to read. It is just that that is the only positive I can come up with. Overall I was very disappointed and would not recommend this book.