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Special Operations Books
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Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,292 ratings — published 2004
Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,458 ratings — published 2007
Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.21 — 864 ratings — published 1996
Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,170 ratings — published 2006
Battle Ready: Memoir of a SEAL Warrior Medic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,029 ratings — published 2012
Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,128 ratings — published 2013
Inside SEAL Team Six: My Life and Missions with America's Elite Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,560 ratings — published 2011
Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces (Commanders)
by (shelved 5 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,642 ratings — published 2001
The Finishing School: Earning the Navy SEAL Trident (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,191 ratings — published 2004
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.31 — 69,767 ratings — published 1999
Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,436 ratings — published 2015
Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,782 ratings — published 2019
First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America's Most Elite Unit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.83 — 448 ratings — published 2014
Men in Green Faces: A Novel of U.S. Navy SEALs (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,739 ratings — published 1992
Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,856 ratings — published
Special Forces: A Guided Tour of U.S. Army Special Forces (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.74 — 618 ratings — published 2001
Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,639 ratings — published 2002
Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,092 ratings — published 2008
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,613 ratings — published 2010
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,960 ratings — published 2009
Without Remorse (John Clark, #1; Jack Ryan Universe Publication Order, #6)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.22 — 77,651 ratings — published 1993
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.34 — 102,061 ratings — published 2006
Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,843 ratings — published 2005
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,774 ratings — published 2025
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,241 ratings — published 2020
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.04 — 58,704 ratings — published 2012
Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,209 ratings — published 2022
The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,145 ratings — published
SOG: Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,221 ratings — published 1997
Gentlemen Bastards: On the Ground in Afghanistan with America's Elite Special Forces (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.90 — 693 ratings — published 2012
The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,075 ratings — published 2008
Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,840 ratings — published 2006
Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.34 — 5,563 ratings — published 2011
SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,393 ratings — published 2011
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,163 ratings — published 2012
SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,672 ratings — published 1986
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,320 ratings — published 2004
The Green Berets: The Amazing Story of the U. S. Army's Elite Special Forces Unit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.99 — 899 ratings — published 1965
The Complete History of the SAS: The Full Inside Story of the World's Most Feared Elite Fighting Force (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.15 — 65 ratings — published 2004
Special Reconnaissance and Advanced Small Unit Patrolling: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures for Special Operations Forces (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.55 — 20 ratings — published
No Hero: The Evolution of a Navy SEAL (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,353 ratings — published 2014
The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.42 — 13,106 ratings — published 2017
The Crossroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,453 ratings — published 2013
Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.60 — 641 ratings — published 2004
By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.14 — 495 ratings — published 2023
The Janson Directive (Paul Janson, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,859 ratings — published 2002
SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.23 — 327 ratings — published 2021
The Quiet Professional: Major Richard J. Meadows of the U.S. Army Special Forces (American Warrior Series)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.40 — 209 ratings — published 2011
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,589 ratings — published 2019
Golden Buddha (Oregon Files, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.93 — 15,392 ratings — published 2003
“We’ve sourced something field-expedient,” Ash began, “from what little’s available there…She’s a surprisingly advanced product of the early militarization of machine intelligence…They saw it as cloning complexly specific skill sets.” █
Netherton nodded, hoping his eyes weren’t visibly glazing. █
“There were, for instance, individuals adroit at managing what were termed competitive control areas…complexly volatile environments, where you might easily lose prized field operators.”
― Agency
Netherton nodded, hoping his eyes weren’t visibly glazing. █
“There were, for instance, individuals adroit at managing what were termed competitive control areas…complexly volatile environments, where you might easily lose prized field operators.”
― Agency
“But inevitably, after all the hardware questions had been answered, Breen would circle down to the question he’d really wanted to ask: What’s it like to blow some unsuspecting raghead’s shit away from a thousand yards? Carl always answered the same way: I tried not to think about that side of it, sir. It was a job, and I focused on the mechanics of it. Guys like Ray Breen never grasped the true nature of sniping. It was as much about concealment as it was about shooting.”
― Third Degree
― Third Degree
