Expendable Elite, by Daniel Marvin

Expendable Elite: One Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare, by Lt. Colonel (Ret) USAF Daniel Marvin
Independent Publishers Group, 2003
329 pages, Appendices, 24 pages of b&w photos
Library: 959.704 MAR

Description
This true story of a Special Forces officer in Vietnam in the mid-sixties will acquaint you with the unique nature of Special Operations Forces and how covert operations are developed and masked to permit - even sponsor - assassinations, outright purposeful killing of innocents, illegal use of force and bizarre methods in combat operations.

Expendable Elite refers the fear that these elite warriors share with no other military person - not the fear of the enemy they have been trained to fight in battle, but fear of the wrath of our government should they no longer be needed and find themselves classified as ...expendable.

A centerpiece of this book is the CIA mission to assassinate CAmbodian Crown Prince Norodum Sihanouk, the author's unilateral aborting of the mission, and the drama surrounding the dispatch by the CIA of an ARVN regiment to attack, destroy the camp and kill every person in it as retribution for standing up against the CIA.

The dramatic rescue by ARVN LTG Quang Van Dang of eight American Green Berets and hundreds of South Vietnamese will capture your curiosity and whet your appetite for more in this ongoing SPECIAL OPERATIONS series.

Table of Contents
Forword by Martha Raye
Introduction by Jacqueline K. Powers
Acronyms, Terms and Abbreviations
1. Secret Orders
2. Massacre West of Rach Gia
3. A Tiger Named Le
4. Taking the War to Cambodia
5. A Test of Courage
6. Wai for the Southern Wind
7. The Shotgun
8. We Almost Bought the Farm
9. But They're Women, Sir!
10. Hell's Fury Unleashed at Khanh Binh
11. Victory at Khanh Binh
12. Mission: Assassinate a Prince
13. Apocolypse at An Phu
14. We Fade Away
15. A President's Fantasy is a Soldier's Curse
Epilogue Part 1-Official Denial and Subterfuge
Epilogue Part 2 - Speaking with forked tongues - A chronology of subterfuge, abandonment and betrayal
Epilogue 3 - Words of pain, anguish and Wisdom
Aftwerword
Appendices
Notes
Maps