Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century
Everybody knows about the CIA--the cloak-and-dagger branch of the U.S. government. Many fewer are familiar with the National Security Agency, even though it has been more important to American espionage in recent years than its better-known counterpart. The NSA is responsible for much of the...

SOG: A Photo History of the Secret Wars
This is the companion photo history to SOG: The Secret Wars of American's Commandos in Vietnam. In 1972 the U.S. military took steps to ensure that such a book could never be printed by destroying all the known photos that existed of the top-secret Studies and Observations Group. But unknown to...

Lifeboat Sailors: Disasters, rescues, and the Perilous Future of the Coast Guard's Small Boat Stations
Lifeboat Sailors is an excellent tribute to the crews of the U.S. Coast Guards small boat stations and their selfless efforts to save the lives of those in peril in dangerous waters. It also offers a perceptive insight into the Coast Guards management of its small boat stations and raises concern...

15 Months With Sog: A Warrior's Tour
"When we cross the border: no ID, and it's kiss yourself good-bye if Charlie gets ahold of you." In Vietnam, the Military Assistance Command's Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) fielded small recon teams in areas infested with VC and NVA. Because SOG operations suffered extraordinary...

200,000 Miles Aboard the Destroyer Cotten
In mid-1943, Snelling Robinson joined the crew of the Fletcher class destroyer USS Cotten as a newly commissioned ensign. The Cotten sailed to Pearl Harbor in time to join the Fifth Fleet. Under the command of Admiral Raymond Spruance, the Fifth Fleet participated in the invasions of Tarawa and Iwo...

2001 Military Space Operations - U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army History, Programs and Plans: Satellites, Missiles, Spaceplanes, Weapons, Tactics
This comprehensive electronic book on CD-ROM presents 146 official Department of Defense (DOD) documents covering the field of U.S. military space operations: General DOD, U.S. Air Force, And NRO Documents; Satellites, Launch Vehicles, And Commands; Joint Vision 2020; Spacecast 2020; Air Force 2025;...

Bonnie-Sue: A Marine Corps Helicopter Squadron in Vietnam
There is no crying or remorse, only a factual, hard-hitting and truthful approach to reality. The detailed history of the Marine helicopter pilot has never been written in such a hard, cold-steel, factual way as this great book reveals.

Assault on the Liberty
The writing is first class. The relationships and conflicts of important shipboard personalities add suspense and human drama.

Cleared Hot!: A Marine Combat Pilot's Vietnam Diary
Many pilots never made it out of 'Nam. This one did. Highly decorated Col. Bob Stoffey--a Marine Corps pilot for over twenty-five years, who served multiple tours n Vietnam--has seen and done it all. CLEARED HOT! is his story--a fast-paced, high-casualty flight into heart-stopping danger.

Death Ground: Today's American Infantry in Battle
A rambling, jingoistic account of the various adventures of Americas ground infantry, by a US army colonel and infantry brigade commander with a doctorate in history from the University of Chicago (Savage Peace: Americans at War in the 1990s, 1995). Bolger uses the various military operations of the...

Fighting with the Soviets: The Failure of Operation FRANTIC, 1944-1945
Fighting with the Soviets provides the first comprehensive look at Operation FRANTIC, an ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful Allied enterprise that produced the war's only significant Soviet-American military venture and demonstrated just how complex and demanding coalition warfare could be.

Sog: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam
Retired Special Forces officer Plaster tells the story of the study and observation group, or SOG, that, during the Vietnam War, controlled Special Forces cross-border reconnaissance missions, "black" propaganda (i.e., propaganda whose source is concealed), and the infiltration of agents into North...

Special Operations Forces and Elusive Enemy Ground Targets: Lessons from Vietnam and the Persian Gulf War
Title speaks for itself...

Ground Forces for a Rapidly Employable Joint Task Force: First-Week Capabilities for Short-Warning Conflicts
A key element of the Department of Defense's effort to "transform the force" is developing capabilities for rapidly employable joint task forces (JTFs).