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Title: Delta Force : The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit by Charlie A. Beckwith, Donald Knox ISBN: 0-380-80939-7 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.05 (37 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating reading!!!!
Comment: Col. Charlie Beckwith is the founder and first commanding officer of Special Forces Operational Detatchment-Delta, aka Delta Force. Col. Beckwith's book begins with his exchange service as a Special Forces Captain with the British Special Air Service. The SAS made such an impression on Col. Beckwith that he designed Delta's organization, selection and training on the British SAS model.
The book covers Col. Beckwith's service in Vietnam, with the precursor of Delta, whose mission was to go behind enemy lines and locate NVA and VC units. He continues with his battles with U.S. Army brass to get Delta established as a counter-terrorism unit and finishes the book with the aborted rescue attempt of the American hostages in Iran.
The book gives an insight of Delta Force as it was first conceived and organized by it's creator but does not cover any recent Delta operations.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read for anyone interested in military operation
Comment: COL. Charles A. Beckwith (Ret.) tells a great story.
The book is a page turner and I had a hard time putting it
down. This is a story of the creation of 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment - Delta (SFOD-D), aka Delta Force.
The story is told from COL Beckwith point of view and
written with Donald Knox.
The story starts with a prologue of a meeting
with President Jimmy Carter in volving the rescue operation
of Tehran hostages crisis.
Then we go back to June 1962, when Green Beret CPT Beckwith and Sergeant Rozniak would participate in an exchange program with the British 22 Special Air Service Regiment aka SAS.
The story progresses forward from there to the creation of 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment - Delta (SFOD-D) to finally the mission to rescue the hostages being held at the U.S. Ambassy in Tehran.
The structure of the book is broken down as followed:
(This is a pocket book, 365 pages, 24 hours read time)
Glossary
Prologue
1-42 Chapters
Epilogue by C.A. Morbley.
Index
Rating: 5
Summary: A book written by a man who was before his time
Comment: To understand Charlie Beckwith and Delta Force, probably the best way to do that is to first understand the British SAS. Beckwith was a huge fan of the SAS, he got most of his ideas from the SAS and all in all had it not been for the SAS, there would have been no Delta.
This book is a story that describes how Beckwith went thru a life changing experience when he underwent a Green Beret exchange tour with the British 22nd SAS Regiment in the early sixties. And then he came back to the USA and spent the rest of his Army career lobbying the Army bureaucracy to build a unit based on the SAS model. This lobbying effort was intensely personal and emotional for Beckwith and frequently involved frustration and disappointment.
Beckwith describes his battles with the Army's conventional bureaucracy, which was powerful and all encompassing. But he also describes his frustrations with the Army's already established special forces of that era...the Green Berets and Ranger Battalions of the sixties and seventies. Beckwith describes how he got little to no support from the regular Army in establishing an SAS type unit, but also how the Green Berets and Ranger Battalions tried to block and stymie his efforts.
Eventually, in the mid to late seventies Beckwith got his wish with the help of a handful of sympathetic, high ranking General officers. To build a truly unique special operations unit based exclusively on the British SAS model. It was neither Green Beret based nor Ranger Battalion based, although most of the early Delta operators were veterans of one of the two mentioned units. It was an American unit, but based on a foreign unit known as the SAS. This all occurred in the extremely anti-special forces political climate of the seventies...right after Vietnam.
Beckwith's career ultimately culminated in the failed 1980 Iranian rescue mission. Which was a huge political disaster for the Carter administration. After which he retired from the Army and sort of faded away. He died in 1994. Its sad that Beckwith never got to see his life's hard work become fully appreciated after the 911 debacle. Beckwith was truly a futuristic thinker, an innovator and creative person.
I would recommend this book for anyone interested in the British SAS, Delta or for anyone who has an intense dislike for bureaucracy and the status quo.
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Title: Inside Delta Force : The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit by ERIC HANEY ISBN: 0385336039 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: 14 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Commandos: The Inside Story of Americas Secret Soldiers by Douglas C. Waller ISBN: 0440220467 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: U.S. Special Forces: A Guide to America's Special Operations Units-The World's Most Elite Fighting Force by Samuel A. Southworth, Stephen Tanner ISBN: 0306811650 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Delta: America's Elite Counterterrorist Force (The Power Series) by Terry Griswold, D.M. Giangreco ISBN: 0879386150 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab ISBN: 0440218802 Publisher: Island Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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