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No Room For Error: The Covert Operations of America's Special Tactics Units From Iran to Afghanistan
No Room For Error: The Covert Operations of America's Special Tactics Units From Iran to Afghanistan
No Room For Error: The Covert Operations of America's Special Tactics Units From Iran to Afghanistan
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No Room For Error: The Covert Operations of America's Special Tactics Units From Iran to Afghanistan

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When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite “special tactics” team in the late 1970s to work with special-operations forces, John T. Carney was the man they turned to.Since then Carney and the U.S. Air Force Special Tactics units have circled the world on clandestine missions. They have combated terrorists and overthrown dangerous dictators. They have suffered eighteen times the casualty rate of America’s conventional forces. But they have gotten the job done.Now, for the first time, Colonel Carney lifts the veil of secrecy and reveals what really goes on inside the special-operations forces that are at the forefront of contemporary warfare.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 1, 2002
ISBN9781593162801
No Room For Error: The Covert Operations of America's Special Tactics Units From Iran to Afghanistan

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    Overall I enjoyed this book and recommend it for anyone interested in the history of the military Special Forces (Rangers, SEALS etc). The narrator (audiobook) was excellent. The first part, where the author discusses his upbringing, was kinda boring and annoying - if I could have skipped it without missing some Special Forces history it would have been just fine. It was a story of classic "white privilege " but Mr Carney isn't given to introspection and never reviews anything. It's this total lack of introspection that makes this part of the book boring; he's given totally undeserved grades and jobs - for example, he was given a passing grade in a class he failed so that he could play football - and he never even considers how that might *not* be the case for other people. He thinks it's totally "deserved" and shows how others saw his potential before he even did. Uh... yah...Anyway... fast forward through that junk and then it gets good: the author describes various special operations in military history, how Spec Ops grew, how each branch developed their own versions, the problems and hiccups they've had along the ways trying to mesh using forces together... basically, how Spec Ops "grew up". I'd guess that the book will be more interesting for older people, as like me, they remember some of the operations and can compare what they remember to what he describes.