I haven't, but I'm familiar with the history of sp
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Posted On: 05/31/2016 2:28:49 PM
I haven't, but I'm familiar with the history of special ops and rangers going back to Marine Raiders in WWII, now called Marine Force Recon.
Served the last two weeks of my six months USMCR active duty with Recon. Ran everywhere, rappelled down walls and had the mess hall to ourselves....and all the eggs we wanted.
Glad it was only two weeks!
This title was on the site. Sounds like a good read to me. LOL!
Served the last two weeks of my six months USMCR active duty with Recon. Ran everywhere, rappelled down walls and had the mess hall to ourselves....and all the eggs we wanted.
Glad it was only two weeks!
This title was on the site. Sounds like a good read to me. LOL!
Quote:
Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975 (Bestseller! New in paperback!)
Hugely ambitious, Unwinnable War took the longest time to write. I was concerned that some recent histories were presenting the Vietnam war story without the nuances.
These works argued that the United States had “won” the war but somehow contrived to throw the victory away.
They accomplished that analytical feat by telling pieces of the story in isolation, not “revisionist” at all but actually neo-orthodox in accepting wartime U.S. government claims as true fact.
I wrote Unwinnable War to show that gathering all the skeins of yarn together demonstrates time ran out on the U.S. war effort, and that a close evaluation reveals that the factors necessary to achieve victory simply were not present for the United States in Vietnam.
Its publisher nominated this book for the Pulitzer Prize. Unwinnable War won the Henry Adams Prize in American History.
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