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Eminent scholar John Prados brings his deep expertise to the subject of the US Special Forces and provides an essential primer on its various components.
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Harvard Library
Princeton University Library
Introduction; Acronyms; Prologue: Bookends on a War; Chapter 1. Origin of the Species; What about the Trojan Horse?; What happened in World War II?; Where did Special Forces go after the war?; How about Special Forces in Korea?; What happened in the Cold War?; Chapter 2. Parallax Shift; How did President John F. Kennedy change Special Forces?; What happened in Vietnam?; Who were the ’montagnards’?; What happened to the Rangers?; What was the ’Green Beret Affair?; What was the Studies and Observation Group?; What was the Sontay raid?; Chapter 3. Ebb and Flow; How did Air Force special warfare evolve?; What about the Navy?; How about elsewhere? Che Guevara?; What tensions existed between Special Forces and the conventional military?; Why did Special Forces go into decline after Vietnam?; What is low intensity conflict?; Did rising concern about terrorism influence SOF trends and when did the change take hold? What is Delta Force?; What does Iran have to do with Special Forces?; What happened in Operation ’Eagle Claw?’; What was the Holloway Report?; What else changed?; Chapter 4. Toward New Horizons; What happened in Grenada?; What did Ronald Reagan do?; What innovations came to SOF?; What is Special Operations Command?; Was there resentment in the military when SOF got their own command?; What happened in the Persian Gulf?; What happened in Panama?; Was Panama the apex of Special Forces’ work in the first Bush administration?; How has the changing nature of United States interventions impacted on the role of the Special Operations Forces?; What other missions did Special Forces conduct?; Are Special Forces suitable in all types of warfare?; What is the relationship between Special Forces and the CIA?; Have SOF officers ever headed the U.S. military?; Chapter 5. After September 11; What is a joint task force?; What happened after Tora Bora?; What happened in Iraq?; What is nodal analysis?; What didn’t Saddam’s capture stop the insurgency?; What about SOF and torture?; Who killed al Zarqawi?; How effective were the night raids?; Did the Iraq and Afghan wars oblige SOF to change or refine practices and doctrines?; Tell me about the Marine Special Operations Command; Did the wars changes Special Forces relationship with the CIA?; How about SOF and the ’private military contractors?’; What is the role of Special Forces in drone warfare?; Are there ’special targets’; What are the moral and legal implications of identifying ’special targets’; Chapter 6. What Future?; What tensions exist within the Special Operations community today?; Are there cost-effectiveness issues?; Are there predictable social issues on the horizon?; So you want to be an operator?; Tell me about Fayetteville; Who’s Who in Special Forces; Bibliography
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