Expendable Elite: One Soldier's Journey into Covert Warfare

About this book

This true story of a special forces officer in Vietnam in the mid-1960s exposes the unique nature of the elite fighting force and how covert operations are developed and often masked to permitand even sponsorassassination outright purposeful killing of innocents illegal use of force and bizarre methods in combat operations. Expendable Elite reveals the fear that these warriors share with no other military person: not fear of the enemy they have been trained to fight in battle but fear of the wrath of the U.S. government should they find themselves classified as expendable. This book centers on the CIA mission to assassinate Cambodian Crown Prince Nordum Sihanouk the authors unilateral aborting of the mission the CIAs dispatch of an ARVN regiment to attack and destroy the camp and kill every person in it as retribution for defying the agency and the dramatic rescue of eight American Green Berets and hundreds of South Vietnamese.