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Summary: Riviting Story
Review: Its been awhile since I have read something that was so interesting to read. The Author lets you in on whats it was like to really be there, shedding light on so many questions. If you want a damm good read and want to know what really happens when our guys are out there, i reccommend this book.
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Summary: Ramblings of an old man
Review: Well, I love Robin Moore in general but I expect serious writing and reporting. Just because he was with the green beanies in Nam does not make up for his unabashed and mostly uncritical homage to the current SF troopers. "Rumsfeld unleashed his dogs of war." Cliched, unchallenging and more of a propaganda tool than an honest assessment of SF in Afghanistan this book can only be recommended to people who desire to read great and possibly misleading things about our troops. It is a shame because the access was rather good but then again there is an old axiom in the military -- keep your feet and knees together. Robin Moore's book is more of the "Hello Dolly' than anything else. Hugely disappointing. Anyone that has ever served knows that it ain't all what its cracked up to be...sadly it is the ramblings and reminiscences of an old man who once was a good writer -- now seemingly afraid to analyze and examine the facts before putting them on paper. It is no secret that the majority of the SF A-teams are not that great -- and some of the lines are bordering on the absurd -- the cane drink being a case in point. Maybe the film industry has a greater impact on our men than we have realized... When we write about our men in the field, give me honest accounts, not glorious self-serving propaganda.
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Summary: Un-Nerving
Review: Absolutely detailed and informing, but nothing like the Green Berets Robin had greater success with, as far as taking in the reader. I actually hated reading this, not since Robin has put a excellent piece together, but because this book reveals what an ugly situation Bin laden has created. As I read this, digging through all the channels from 911 to the current, I now am thoroughly disgusted with what sacrifice and drudgery many have had to travail to catch up with Laden, not to mention the acts of terror. I wonder how much Robin had to put up with in bringing us this information which I cant imagine being any more complete anywhere. If you want to know, it is very descriptive in this incredible account that is also unbiased hard fact. I would hope another book follows up on this, I hope Robin writes it. I say yes and recommend this along with SB or God by Karl Maddox that goes into a probable and realistic war in this region to include Iraq.
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Summary: Interesting Book
Review: The book is really about the Green Beret in Afghanistan and the mission they undertook and the job they did. This book is not about J. Keith Idema "Jack" who has basically hijacked a book. If anyone has questions about Jack just call the Afghanistan Embassy in Washington D.C., or Special Forces Command at Fort Bragg. Mr. Idema is responsible for selling captured AQ Tapes to the Media instead of turing them over to Special Forces.I would have rated the book five stars but I removed one of the stars because of Mr.Idema....
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Summary: Not science fiction
Review: Moore's book reads like a Tom Clancy novel. However, this story is real.
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Summary: American Fearless Men Hunting Bin Laden's Yellow Eyes!
Review: This is another bravura book by a plucky writer who enjoys discovering privileged information few others are competent to tackle. Robin Moore does it again by using his close contacts in Special Forces to explain how we were able to secure Afghanistan within the shortest time in history. The author reveals how the unleashed CIA, Pentagon and others joined the Northern Alliance to end the reign of the Taliban and Al Qaida. Robin Moore reveals how our forces put these gutless and craven Whabbis' leaders to chase into caves leaving only the most ill-advised devotees to die. The author underscores in the most insightful fashion, how our Special Forces and CIA were able to identify almost every member of Al Qaida by the information gathered in the caves during the 10-month war in Afghanistan. He reveals how Al Qaida's brain trust were quite foolish to create records to find them and each apprehension elicits more defections and the naming of names. I came away understanding how Al Qaida became so bold in the first place. It is clear America's foes have underestimated the resolve of common Americans by overestimating the lack of resolve of American leadership. Bin Laden became hearten after each bombing and after he won a street battle in Somalia and then witness the American Military withdrawing in haste. Bin Laden concluded Americans would retreat as soon as they are bloodied. The book shows how wrong he was about our Special Forces and Troops, but often right about some of our generals and bickering elected leaders. The writer missed only one detail on how Bin Laden was able to escape by sending a messenger with his cell phone one way as he went the other. Perhaps he fails to grasp that it is not in our interest to kill Bin Laden in battle. This would only make him a martyr. Simultaneously, it is not in anyone's interest to capture Bin Laden either. If we did many of his subversive followers would start to take hostages to ransom his release all over the world. As a result, the 'Hunt For Bin Laden' is not meant to be a true hunt due to very practical goals to prevent further victims from following a bemused Bin Laden legacy. Robin should research further on why Bin Laden no longer appears on video and only uses tapes or handwritten notes. We know Bin Laden's needs kidney dialysis regularly. Kidney failure leads to liver breakdown causing jaundice. Jaundice causes a deep yellow color to the skin and eyes. In the Qu`ran, a person with yellow skin and eyes is possessed by Satan as punishment from Allah for his wicked deeds. Consequently, Bin Laden's heritage is one showing cowardly yellow eyes and a very painstaking death. Bin Laden will not die as a Martyr's or Scapegoat avoiding capture. I find this a fitting paradox given that Bin Laden used wayward suicide solutions from Whabbisms' altered Qu`rans to mislead his followers. Who wants to follow that kind of legacy? The book appends the puzzle how Bin Laden got so far before our boys or 'Allah' stopped him. Our Special Forces did their duty by going into the fire without fear as the book points out. In all their glory this will be forever their story!
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Summary: Ooooh Ahhhh, or whatever!
Review: I guess this book is the kind of chest-beater and hoist-the-flag nonsense that induces many young Americans to join the military. And as has been the case with US military operations since WW2, Moore outlines how time after time US Special Forces use maximum firepower to achieve some sort of result. `Over the top' seems to be a special section in the US military's training manuals. We Aussies saw how this operated in Vietnam and our troops invariably avoided being anywhere near where Yank troops operated. `Recon by Fire' was a real eye-opener! When it came down to stealth, patrol tactics and contact drills, Yanks always have and always will believe in pumping out as much lead as possible and just see what happens. They didn't learn then, didn't learn in Somalia and sadly, are repeating the same mistakes in Iraq today. I know men who served in both the Brit and Aussie SAS and they suggest that US forces, and this includes Special Forces, are equipped to the hilt but have no idea about basic battle tactics. They seem to follow a philosophy that Might will always triumph. Ask the Vietnamese about the logic of that one!
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Summary: Biased but still interesting
Review: Ok, the book was very biased and it is hard to take Robin Moore serious when he writes the book like the diary of a teenage girl in love with a rock band (or in this case the Special Forces). I also find it hilarious that Mr. Moore's mysterious "Jack" character the one that shows up through out the book to do incredible deeds just got arrested in Afghanstan for running his own personal prision (see July issue of Time) and torturing people. Apparently this idiot was doing this all on his own with out goverment backing. To top it all off he was known by the media as some crack pop that would shot off at the mouth about all his heroic deeds. With all that said, I think that the book (with all of its propaganda) still makes the point of how brave the men and women are that participated in the events (even the one's that are not Green Beret that Mr. Moore never misses an opportunity to call ignorant).
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Summary: Has a ring of truth
Review: Reading many of the reviews, I am not sure how much truth there is in the book. However the facts remain that a civil war existed in Afghanistan which the Taliban's together with al-Qaida were definitely winning. A few US and other Western forces together with the Western Air forces changed the result of the conflict in a very short time. So to me the book has a strong ring of truth in it.
You are not going to get for awhile a definite history (if such a thing exists) for quite awhile. This takes time and in the absence of anything better I suggest that this book will have to do.
I can assure you that it is a very exciting read. Read like a novel which I found it hard to put down.
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Summary: why do we need the 1st mar div, 82nd and 101st
Review: moore pumps green berets (and aussie/brit SAS) at the expense of conventional army units, marines, and afghani ground pounders. based on his fun to read and up close account of elite forces actions in the 2001-2002 afghani war, the real "hero" is laser guided smart bomb technology. moore describes how special forces operators working in tandem with rag-tag northern alliance units provided close air support guidance to US bombers that broke the back of al queda and taliban defensive postitions. the book gets a little tedious as moore covers each of the dozen or so operations from masar el sharif to kandahar to herat to tora bora which are all similar (find the enemy, laze him, drop the bomb, engage whatever is left, and move to the next line of defense). reading this book, you get the impression from moore that future conflicts can be engaged and won with a heavy dose of special forces smarts and elan. like tommy franks, i am not convinced robin. but still "the hunt for bin laden" is a worthwhile read.
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