Strategy, United States, Engineering, History of Technology, National & International Security, Military, Political Science, Military Sciences 

Armies in the 1990s are commonly involved in low-level, ill-defined, politically charged, messy situations known collectively as "unconventional warfare". Thomas Adams argues for a shift in expectations with a greater willingness to accept lengthy commitments and incremental progress. - from Amzon 

CONTENTS
1. What are special operations all about?...................................................P.1
2. War outside the conventional model - a US history..................................P. 27
3.The creation of army special forces;........................................................P. 54
4. special forces in Vietnam - Part I,...........................................................P. 78
5. special forces in Vietnam -Part II...........................................................P. 116
6. The post-Vietnam doldrums.................................................................P. 151
7. Special ops in the bureaucratic jungle....................................................P. 172
8.The SOF renaissance............................................................................P. 210
9."Desert Storm", "Provide Comfort" and the drug war................................P. 231
10. Somalia and Haiti............................................................................P. 258
11. A brief excursion into the future..........................................................P.287