U.S. Navy SEALs 101 (Military Power) by Hans Halberstadt

Author:Hans Halberstadt [Halberstadt, Hans]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Published: 2012-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

From a thousand feet overhead, the farms and rivers of Mekong Delta look deceptively tranquil in this pre-op recon photo. Within the lush growth along the river are likely to be bunkers and fighting positions. Inland, among the fields and groves, may lurk more enemy facilities and stores—and the enemy himself. Gary Stubbenfield

Korea was the first of a series of nasty little wars that didn’t conform to the expectations of the strategic planners in Washington, but that didn’t prevent soldiers, sailors, and marines from having to fight them. Korea didn’t really fit what the American public expected, either, and consequently support for the war and the men fighting it slowly ebbed a bit until the stalemate was formalized with a truce in 1953. But Korea expanded the mission of the organization that would soon be rechristened “SEALs” and included guerrilla operations behind the lines, parachute jumps, and other missions quite different from those envisioned ten years previously during the bigger conflict of World War II. And more was yet to come.

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