John Prados

Us Special Forces

What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780199354283
• ISBN-10: 0199354286
• Artikelnr.: 42804157

Autorenporträt

John Prados is a Senior Fellow of the National Security Archive and the author of Islands of Destiny, Vietnam, and Lost Crusader.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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