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Title: Perfect Soldier : Special Operations, Commandos, and the Future of U. S. Warfare
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0806524154
ISBN 13: 9780806524153
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 1.301 pounds

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Tracing the history of special operations commandos, from ancient times to the present day, the author of The Next War Zone offers a provocative look at the ways in which Special Forces and other commandos are transforming the U.S. military and the future face of warfare.

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A leading U. S. military analyst offers a timely and useful survey of the history of special operations. Dunnigan (How to Make War; The Next War Zone; etc.) claims a history for commando missions going back to Neolithic hunting parties, and names the famous raid on Troy, in which Greek soldiers hid themselves inside a wooden horse, a "classic commando operation." His relatively speedy discussion of elite forces in the centuries leading up to the Second World War is somewhat uneven, as he tends to claim every small, highly-skilled category of soldiers (such as the English longbowmen and the German Stosstruppen-storm troops-of WWI) as part of the Spec Ops lineage. When he gets to the WWII ("a Golden Age for commandos") and after, however, he provides a valuable roster of major special operations forces (including Soviet Spetsnaz and British SAS). Joining this are fine and comprehensible narratives of their roles in Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Falklands, the first Gulf War and most recently the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Throughout the book, he also weaves in analysis of the influence of early elite forces on the development of their more numerous contemporaries. This is perhaps not an indispensable history, but it is certainly a valuable one.
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