KEVIN LYLES

Vietnam fue la misión más compleja y controvertida de las Fuerzas Especiales de los Estados Unidos, misión que comenzó en 1957 y terminó en 1973. Fuerzas de ataque de campo, fuerzas de ataque móviles, fuerzas de guerrilla móviles, proyectos de reconocimiento especiales, misiones de entrenamiento, e imposiciones de los cuarteles generales proveyeron de vasta experiencia a los soldados de las Fuerzas Especiales. Otros factores fueron el terreno, el clima, y el curso cambiante de la propia guerra. Gordon Rottman examina el entrenamiento, vida, armas y experiencias de combate de los soldados de la Fuerzas Especiales en ente exigente entorno.

In April 2003, after brief combat, Baghdad fell under US control and the Coalition Provisional Authority was formed to maintain order until a new Iraqi government became a reality. This book details the stabilization operations and the experiences of US Task Force 1st Armored Division (TF 1AD), whose soldiers lived and fought under extreme conditions and whose activities were center stage in the controversial debate surrounding the initial occupation of Iraq. Soldiers' personal experiences from recruitment, training, and armed combat to their aftermath and effects emerge from interviews and new documentation by author Kenneth W. Estes in his account of this crucial military campaign.

The part played by Australian and New Zealand troops in the Vietnam War is sometimes overlooked; but it is generally accepted that the 'Diggers' and 'Kiwis' were among the most effective and professional troops involved. Drawing upon the ANZACs' long experience in the jungles of South East Asia, the men of the Task Force used their expertise in patrol tactics to great effect to frustrate Viet Cong operations. Meanwhile the ANZACs' small and isolated adviser teams spent ten years passing on their skills all over South Vietnam, and in the process four were awarded the supreme decoration for valour - the Victoria Cross. This book pays tribute to their military prowess, and describes and illustrates their uniforms and equipment in unprecedented detail.