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Black ops, Vietnam

Black Ops Vietnam

The Operational History of MACVSOG

By Robert M. Gillespie

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Publish Date

2022

Publisher

Naval Institute Press

Language

eng

Pages

304

Description:

"The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) was officially activated in January 1964 ... this highly classified U.S. joint-service organization combined elements from the Army Special Forces, Navy SEALs, and Marine Force recon units, as well as personnel from the Air Force and CIA. It also fielded a division-sized element of South Vietnamese military personnel, indigenous Montagnards, ethic Chinese Nungs, and Taiwanese pilots. Operating in the dark shadows of the jungles of Vietnam, this unique, highly specialized unit participated in the planning and conduct of the wars significant operations. During its nine-year existence, MACVSOG played a key role in ongoing air operations over North Vietnam, the covert war in Laos, the Tet Offensive, Operations Lam Son 719, the Easter invasion, and Son Tay POW Raid ... Black ops, Vietnam is a complete history of the MACVSOG unit drawn from declassified documents and memoirs ... and comes as a timely blueprint for today's large-scale, multi-ethnic, unconventional, and counter-insurgency operations"--Jacket.