Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces by Tom Clancy
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book ends basically on the eve of the The War in Afghanistan, so it may seem out of date. However, as a work of history it is interesting and enlightening. Clancy and insider Steiner take us through the history of U.S. special forces from inforomal, one-off Jedburgh teams of WW II to increasing formalization reaching an acme in the Vietnam War with Rangers and Green Berets. Marginalized and continued to be seen as adjuncts to regular infnatry, etc., these units lose ffectiveness, prepararation, force integation until Desert One disastrously shows in the wastes of Iran that we need better Special Forces capability. After that, an SF commandis set up leading to counter-terrorism measures (the takedown if not take-in of the Achille Lauro hijakes is notably told) into the ever-increasing friction with Iraq.
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