Shadow Warrior: Inside the US Special Forces

Author: (USA) Clancy, (USA) Steiner, translated by Qi Aihong, Liang Jun, Shi Lihua
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Tom Clancy's best-selling military series, a collaboration between best-selling military authors and "Desert Storm" generals, revealing the secrets behind the founding of the U.S. Special Operations Forces for the first time. This is Tom Clancy's third non-fiction military work and a book co-authored by him and former U.S. Special Forces Commander, retired General Carl Steiner. The book provides a detailed account of the birth and development of U.S. Special Forces, as well as the major military operations they have participated in, offering insights into the recruitment, selection, training, and leadership systems of U.S. Special Forces. During World War II and the Vietnam War, U.S. Special Forces had already begun to play a unique role, but the U.S. military had long regarded these "elite" combatants as outsiders, mocking their unorthodox combat methods and dismissing them as "circus acts." However, in 1980, after 53 Americans were taken hostage in Tehran, Iran, the U.S. military realized that traditional military operations, which assumed the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as adversaries, were entirely inadequate to address the new global threat of terrorism. From then on, the fate of Special Forces changed dramatically, as they began to take center stage in history and gradually became key participants in major political and military events. The book primarily revolves around the military career of General Carl Steiner: starting in the 1950s as the beginning of his Special Forces career, his service as a "Green Beret" in Vietnam, the various covert missions he organized and participated in across the Middle East, and his eventual rise to become the commander of U.S. Special Forces. Based on General Steiner's personal experiences, the book reveals the true details of many major historical events, such as the clashes between U.S. Special Forces and North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War, the detailed process of the U.S. invasion of Panama and the overthrow of General Noriega, the 1985 Achile Lauro hostage crisis, and the military operations involving U.S. Special Forces during Operation Desert Storm in 1990.