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Books : Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team (Cassell Military Paperbacks) |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9780304367276
ISBN: 0304367273
Label: Cassell
Manufacturer: Cassell
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: February 28, 2007
Publisher: Cassell
Studio: Cassell
Sales Rank: 184047
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Product Description:
America’s most secret Special Forces unit does not even have a name. Formed as the “Intelligence Support Activity,” the group has had a succession of innocuous titles to hide its ferocious purpose: to operate undercover in the world’s most dangerous places and penetrate such enemy organizations as Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. Here is the first detailed account of its history, and it traces the I.S.A. from its very beginnings to the present day, when it has accomplished such missions as locating Saddam Hussein. By translating intelligence information into direct action, it is well on its way to becoming the most effective and feared force in the U.S. military.
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This book is about a "secret" government agency called the Activity that has supposedly been involved with or behind a number of covert or clandestine missions for the past 40 years. Sounds interesting, but the author doesn't really provide a lot of new information. The Activity is mentioned as being involved, but the author also refers to the CIA, Delta, DevGru, DIA, SAS and other known groups who were known to have been involved. The Activity is supposed to have the toughest training of any ... Read More
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Interesting subject matter and worthy of a book, but the title gives the impression that these folks breath fire and are ruthless killers. Perhaps they are, but the content does not support that view. What the book does do in an excellent fashion is describe the backbone of a military intellegence organization that works quietly and efficiently behind the scenes to collect and process the operational intelligence critically needed by the front line commanders where the rubber meets the road. Those ... Read More
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Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team
-The book written is basically a "compilation" of Articles and other Book's over the past 20yrs; some better than other's; some "much" worse. The "Intelligence Support Activity", Motto: "Veritas Omnia Vincula Vincit", (with the words "Send Me" on the sword in it's "Formal" Crest). It was formed following the initial rescue attempt of American Hostage's on "holiday" at the pleasure of the Iranian's. This was ... Read More
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Once again I make the mistake of thinking that, a book about the forces will be intertesting, yes only if you are into politics!!!! There is no actual action stories here, just all the hurdles that, was put up againest, the setting up of a Force like this, very disappointing
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I could not agree more with "B"s review. I actually gave up on this book after about 3/4 of the way through. It contains lots of "could have done it if we were allowed" stories. Simply boring.
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