Shadow Warriors

An unconventional war requires unconventional men—the Special Forces. Green Berets • Navy SEALS • Rangers •Air Force Special Operations • PsyOps • Civil Affairs •and other special-mission units The first two Commanders books Every Man a Tiger and Into the Storm provided masterly blends of history biography you-are-there narrative insight into the practice of leadership and plain old-fashioned storytelling. Shadow Warriors is all of that and more a book of uncommon timeliness for in the words of Lieutenant General Bill Yarborough “there are itches that only Special Forces can scratch.” Now Carl Stiner—the second commander of SOCOM the U.S. Special Operations Command—and Tom Clancy trace the transformation of the Special Forces from the small core of outsiders of the 1950s through the cauldron of Vietnam to the rebirth of the SF in the late 1980s and 1990s and on into the new century as the bearer of the largest most mixed and most complex set of missions in the U.S. military. These are the first-hand accounts of soldiers fighting outside the lines: counterterrorism raids hostage rescues reconnaissance counterinsurgency and psychological operations—from Vietnam and Laos to Lebanon to Panama to Saudi Arabia Kuwait and Iraq to the new wars of today…