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The Command: Deep Inside The President's Secret Army (2012)

by Marc Ambinder(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Wiley and Sons

review 1: Oh man. Oh man. Oh man. Why do I read books like this? This one was about JSOC. A full history, and how it got to be what it is today. I suppose as citizens we need to read things like this so we know what our government is doing in our name. And I am glad to read things like this. But man, is it messed up. Here read this: "Operators from Delta Force and SEAL Team Six infiltrated China with the CIA and mapped the locations of Chinese satellite transmission facilities in the event that the United States ever needed to disable them. On more than one occasion, they’ve engaged Iranian troops on Iranian soil. They’ve fought in Lebanon, in Peru, in the Palestinian territories, and in Syria." Or read this: "Some Democratic senators on the Armed Services Committee believe that... more Flynn’s championing of bulk data analysis provided a brutally efficient way to kill too many innocent Afghans and may not have been as effective as the military suggests. By this, they mean that instead of targeting people, infantry and special forces units targeted telephone numbers—they would target gatherings of people who had been surreptitiously tagged with chemicals or RFID chips, even if they didn’t precisely know who these targets were"Depressing, right? RIGHT?
review 2: I purchased this thinking it would be yet another sexy behind the scenes political pop-non-fiction book. I happen to enjoy them. However, this is not one of those books. And it is fantastic. A detail oriented account of JSOC/SOCOM, what they do, how they do it and some of their recent accomplishments. This books is well researched, well sourced and the well connected author was privy to dozens of high ranking officials who speak off the record. less

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