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Summary: A great insight to Delta Force
Review: Eric Haney tells it like it is. He dosnt make himself out to be a hero.He just wants people to know the lengths special forces go to to protect freedom.This book is serious,funny,and just all around good. I couldnt put it down.
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Summary: The S.A.S is not the most Elite Unit in Even U.K
Review: "but the delta force come in somewhere behind the best in the world....the british S.A.S."
THE S.A.S IS NOT EVEN THE MOST ELITE SPECIAL FORCE UNIT IN UNITED KINGDOM. ASK ANYBODY, WHO KNOWS A GREAT DEAL ABOUT BRITISH SPECIAL FORCES, ABOUT WHICH UNIT IS THE MOST ELITE, HE OR SHE WOULD TELL YOU THAT THE HONOR GOES TO THE SBS. THE SAS IS JUST THE MOST FAMOUS?
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Summary: best book I have read in years
Review: For personal reasons I needed to know and understand what this particular group of soldiers do. I wanted to understand the type of man it takes to be able to do this kind of job. Well this book informed me more than I thought it would. I could not put it down. Wonderfully written. I was looking for information and got much more than that. Mr Eric Haney is and extordinary man and a wonderful author. MUST READ!!!
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Summary: not the elite
Review: i have all the respect in the world for special forces,where ever they are from in the world.but the delta force come in somewhere behind the best in the world....the british S.A.S.
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Summary: Hard to put down
Review: I enjoyed this book immensely. Had a very difficult time putting the book down. Several times I found myself laughing out loud and always deeply engrossed. I would highly recommend this book.
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Summary: awesome
Review: this book is the awesome true stories of the creation of the best unit in the world and should be a must read for anyone who enjoys stories of silent heroes
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Summary: He's baaaaaack....New name, same bile
Review: Without even bothering to rewrite much of his earlier text, Mr. Mechawatsis from waaay west of the Mississippi (Thailand, perhaps?) re-posts his non-review under a new, but still anonymous, name. Mucho macho, eh? Sooooo knowledgeable about Delta Force. Soooo savvy about Special Forces. I bet that works well in the bars, doesn't it? Please. Spare us your pontification. Once again, Haney's book is a memoir, not an annotated history, of his years in Delta Force. It was written from his point of view (as is his right) with tremendous respect for his comrades, for Col. Beckwith, and insights into humanity that have impressed people all over the world by now. Read these reviews. You'll understand why one magazine writer called him, "The Philosopher Centurion." You're not a philosopher, sir, no matter how polysyllabic you wax. The day you'll impress me -- and doubtless other readers of these reviews -- is the day you write something under your own name. If you can't sign your name to something as simple as a book review, I'm skeptical that you'll ever have the cojones to write the annotated, anal-retentive book you seem itching to write.
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Summary: From the cutting room floor of The X-Files
Review: Don't despair just yet, for Eric Haney's writing is forcefullyexciting and at times even hairaising(though not always in a good sense), the perfect companion for a 4-8 plane ride. An even mildly perceptive reader, however, will probably leave this book with ling- ering doubts, and justifiably so. CSM Haney's absense from Bec- kwith's memoirs is reasonable enough(there were too many guys in CAG for him to reasonably mention. Contrary to one reviewer, "Allen" was actually the pseudonym for a sergeant identified by both Haney and Beckwith as a pointman during operation Eagle Claw, not Haney himself.), mention of Delta's first succesfull oper- ation in Bangkok, conducted a year after the Tehran debacle and in which a hijacked airliner was wrested via the smooth liquadati- ion of all four terroists, without injury to the crew, is sorely absent, as is any mention of the Achilles Lauro fiasco, another successful- l resuce in Venezuela, and the unit's role in the ultimately lethal hunt for Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Haney writes of De- lta subserviently from a counterrorism perspective as a matter of fact, with scant discussion of the operatives' more prominent dutie- s(high-risk LRRP ops, cross-training with foreign units, Olympic se- curity details), and one would imagine that as the sole member of the JSOC to sport women, such a topic would be game for some heckling or veiled braggadios, but this was also apparently to sun- dry a topic for Haney. The guy spells out numerous times that he and his comrades were "in the dark", yet for a unit who at the time of the author's service was only 70some strong, aren't some of these omissions pretty glaring? Perhaps for filler's sake the reader is instead offered my- riad half-baked cloak and dagger tales, the most outrageous pe- rhaps being the assasination of a Delta trained CIA operative wor- king undercover as Honduran guerrilla leader(?!) which the CSM claims to have himself perpetrated, although the Laos section c- omes in at a close second; should anyone be inquisitive, Bo Gr- itz with the support of ISA(the U.S.'s answer to Israel's Mistr'avim) did in fact raid the suspected facility, and found themselves the dupes of urban legend. One hardly has to look farther than the book's backjacket bio to sample author Haney's frequent use of loaded language, describing his current existence as one spent "r- escuing kidnapped American children, negotiating the release of American hostages(this former snakeater has apparently thrown "To free the Oppressed" to the wind and is now focused solely on his own yard) and protecting CEOs and princes(nothing like mixed m- essages)." Perhaps most disturibing of all however, is this former count- terterror maestro's chalking up militant fundamentalism to a "Mus- lim attitude problem"; amusing will be the day when one of Eric Haney's guest spots on the O'Reilly Factor is perturbed by a call- er who confronts both dudes with the news that pre-9/11 the most horrific terrorist act on U.S. soil was commited by American of Anglo-Irish extraction against other Americans. In time, IDF may serve not as an "insider account", but a curious relic to future so- ciology and linguistics students reflecting upon the concept and meaning of the word "poser."
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: Though the book is short on details of actual missions, the details of Haney's training to become a Delta operator is compelling and vivid. I know a lot of people are disapointed by the lack of mission details but it has to be acknowledged that the Delta force isn't even officially/publically recognized by the government due to its sensitive and top secret nature. Undertsandably this makes details of missions not appropriate for public consumption. But for anyone who ever wanted to know more about Delta operators, how they are trained and what the force is SUPPOSED to be used for (counter-terrorism), this book is a must read. It really puts you in awe as you read the skills and concentration and dedication these guys have to be able to do the things they do. I read it in 2 nights, easy. Couldn't put it down. A great read.
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