US Special Ops: The History, Weapons, and Missions of Elite Military Forces

by Fred Pushies

It's the inside scoop on US military special operations. From weapons, gear, missions, and commandos, learn every military secret from the eighteenth century to today. Few aspects of the US military pique people's interest more than special ops. Due to the clandestine nature of their missions, weapons, and gear, these elite fighting forces are cloaked in an aura of intrigue that has only ratcheted upward with the expanded roles they have assumed in today's world, not to mention their recent and frequent appearances in film, books, and other mass media. In US Special Ops , longtime military author and special-ops expert Fred Pushies takes on the entire scope of America's elite fighting forces, beginning with their earliest days. Pushies profiles hundreds of weapons, gear, vehicles, missions, and commandos, from eighteenth-century fighters like Francis Marion right up through the most advanced capabilities of today's Green Berets, Rangers, SEALs, Marine Force Recon, US Air Force combat controllers, CIA Special Activities Division, and more - well over 350 entries in all. From the tomahawks used by Rogers's Rangers to special-ops legends like Col. Aaron Bank to Operation Neptune Spear and beyond, US Special Ops is a comprehensive, informative, and unique survey of all aspects of US special operations, past and present.

Genres: Military Fiction

320 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2016

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a great book. I thought it went very in-depth into the workings and history of United States Special Forces but it would have been better if it was separated into different sections for weapons, missions etc. It flowed decently but it lacked a little comprehension and structure in some places but overall, was very informative.

[gumdosam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly the book was not what I was expecting. I thought that it would be more of a play by play on how the weapons and missions as well as the spec-ops teams themselves came to be. Instead, it was more like a dictionary for the different things by giving a paragraph to a bunch of diffferent terms. Its not a bad book and has a lot of good information - it was just not what I was going for.

[Mohammad Sadiq · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is simple to know about the great warriors of US and specially Spec ops thier training and equipments and their best operations