U.S. Navy Seals

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The United States Navy SEAL Teams were only founded as recently as 1962, on the orders of President John F. Kennedy, but they already have a reputation as one of the best special forces units in the world. The U.S. Navy SEALs: From Vietnam to Finding Bin Laden tells the story behind this famous unit.

The book begins with the SEALs’ origins in World War II, when the Navy’s Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs) prepared beaches in Normandy and the Pacific for U.S. amphibious ...

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Overview

The United States Navy SEAL Teams were only founded as recently as 1962, on the orders of President John F. Kennedy, but they already have a reputation as one of the best special forces units in the world. The U.S. Navy SEALs: From Vietnam to Finding Bin Laden tells the story behind this famous unit.

The book begins with the SEALs’ origins in World War II, when the Navy’s Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs) prepared beaches in Normandy and the Pacific for U.S. amphibious landings. The UDTs also served in the Korean War, but afterwards were neglected. A new conflict in Vietnam demanded a new type of unit, and the SEALs were born out of the UDTs as a maritime special operations unit capable of a multitude of missions. The SEALs served with distinction in Southeast Asia, targeting the Vietcong infrastructure and earning a fearsome reputation.

Since the American withdrawal from Vietnam, the SEALs have seen action in Grenada, Panama, the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Somalia, Bosnia and now Afghanistan and Iraq. The book describes the full combat record of the SEAL Teams and details their organization, equipment, uniforms and insignia, as well as their famous operation to find Bin Laden.

Illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs and artworks, and with an authoritative text, The U.S. Navy SEALs: From Vietnam to Finding Bin Laden is a definitive history of one of America’s elite fighting units.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781435138780
  • Publisher: Sterling
  • Publication date: 11/21/2011
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 202,138
  • Product dimensions: 9.00 (w) x 11.80 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

David Jordan is a Senior Lecturer in Defense Studies, King's College London. A graduate of the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham, he previously held lecturing posts at Birmingham, Worcester and Keele. He is the author of Wolfpack, Aircraft Carriers, The Fall of Hitler's Reich and Atlas of World War 2. He has also contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography and has written a number of academic articles on subjects as diverse as the British involvement in Indonesia in 1945 and the prospects for Britain's future aircraft carriers.

Dick Couch is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and has served aboard a Navy destroyer and with the Navy UDT and SEAL Teams. While a platoon commander with SEAL Team One in 1970, he led one of the only successful P.O.W. rescue operations of the Vietnam War. On release from active duty in 1972, he served with the CIA. He has published five novels and non-fiction work including The Warrior Elite and The Sheriff of Ramadi. Dick is a regular guest on U.S. television and radio. He is Professor of Ethics at the U.S Naval Academy.

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  • Posted March 18, 2013

    I was really hoping to enjoy this book. I know that I found it

    I was really hoping to enjoy this book. I know that I found it in the bargain bin so I guess you do get what you pay for. I've read a number of books about the US military and I found this one to be the least informative. It's more like reading a promotional manual for the SEALS. It seems like the author had nothing negative to say about the SEALS and was constantly "gushing" about how wonderful they are. Obviously, the SEALS are an amazing, elite unit but this felt more like it was written by the Department of Defence (with very little substance) than by an author who should have been looking at his subject a bit more objectively.

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