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Shadow warriors inside the Special Forces

A look at the U.S. military Special Forces, during the last five decades, through the eyes of retired general Carl Stiner, who has spent many years leading America's Special Forces in such missions as Desert Storm and the Panama invasion.

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  • "Amerika tokushū butai"

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  • "A look at the U.S. military Special Forces, during the last five decades, through the eyes of retired general Carl Stiner, who has spent many years leading America's Special Forces in such missions as Desert Storm and the Panama invasion."@en
  • "A look at the U.S. military Special Forces, during the last five decades, through the eyes of retired general Carl Stiner, who has spent many years leading America's Special Forces in such missions as Desert Storm and the Panama invasion."
  • "Tom Clancy teams with Lieutenant General Bill Yarborough to recount the experiences of the men and women who serve in the United States Special Forces units."
  • "The war in Afghanistan has given the public an unprecedented look at what America's special forces can do--their extraordinary skill and stamina and the sacrifices they are willing to make. Now, Tom Clancy and Carl Stiner--the second commander of SOCOM, the U.S. Special Operations Command--take readers deep inside the history, training, resourcefulness, and creativity of the Special Forces soldier. These are first-hand accounts of soldiers fighting outside the lines: counterterrorism, raids, hostage rescues, reconnaissance, counter-insurgency, and psychological operations-from Vietnam and Laos to Lebanon, from Panama to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq, to the new wars of today."@en
  • "An unconventional war requires unconventional men'the Special Forces. Green Berets - Navy SEALS - Rangers - Air Force Special Operations - PsyOps - Civil Affairs - and other special-mission units The first two Commanders books, Every Man a Tiger and Into the Storm, provided masterly blends of history, biography, you-are-there narrative, insight into the practice of leadership, and plain old-fashioned storytelling. Shadow Warriors is all of that and more, a book of uncommon timeliness, for, in the words of Lieutenant General Bill Yarborough, "there are itches that only Special Forces can scratch." Now, Carl Stiner'the second commander of SOCOM, the U.S. Special Operations Command'and Tom Clancy trace the transformation of the Special Forces from the small core of outsiders of the 1950s, through the cauldron of Vietnam, to the rebirth of the SF in the late 1980s and 1990s, and on into the new century as the bearer of the largest, most mixed, and most complex set of missions in the U.S. military. These are the first-hand accounts of soldiers fighting outside the lines: counterterrorism, raids, hostage rescues, reconnaissance, counterinsurgency, and psychological operations'from Vietnam and Laos to Lebanon to Panama, to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq, to the new wars of today'"@en
  • "Inside the special forces."@en
  • "Stiner, a former commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, leads readers, "deep into modern unconventional warfare." He covers the Green Berets, Rangers, Navy SEALs, OsyOps and others."@en
  • "aAn unconventional war requires unconventional men--the Special Forces. Green Berets Navy SEALS Rangers Air Force Special Operations PsyOps Civil Affairs and other special-mission units The first two Commanders books, Every Man a Tiger and Into the Storm, provided masterly blends of history, biography, you-are-there narrative, insight into the practice of leadership, and plain old-fashioned storytelling. Shadow Warriors is all of that and more, a book of uncommon timeliness, for, in the words of Lieutenant General Bill Yarborough, "there are itches that only Special Forces can scratch." Now, Carl Stiner--the second commander of SOCOM, the U.S. Special Operations Command--and Tom Clancy trace the transformation of the Special Forces from the small core of outsiders of the 1950s, through the cauldron of Vietnam, to the rebirth of the SF in the late 1980s and 1990s, and on into the new century as the bearer of the largest, most mixed, and most complex set of missions in the U.S. military. These are the first-hand accounts of soldiers fighting outside the lines: counterterrorism, raids, hostage rescues, reconnaissance, counterinsurgency, and psychological operations--from Vietnam and Laos to Lebanon to Panama, to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq, to the new wars of today"

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  • "History"@en
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  • "Ying zi wu shi : maguo te zhong bu dui nei mu"
  • "Shadow warriors inside the Special Forces"@en
  • "Shadow warriors inside the Special Forces"
  • "Shadow Warriors : Inside the special forces"@en
  • "Shadow Inside the Special Forces Warriors"@en
  • "Shadow warriors inside the special forces"@en
  • "Shadow warriors"@en
  • "Shadow warriors : inside the Special Forces"@en
  • "Shadow warriors : inside the Special Forces"
  • "Tomu Kuranshī Amerika tokushū butai"

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