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| | Product Details | | Author: | Charlie A. Beckwith | | Mass Market Paperback: | 365 pages | | Publisher: | Avon | | Publication Date: | June 01, 2000 | | ISBN: | 0380809397 | | Package Length: | 6.7 inches | | Package Width: | 4.0 inches | | Package Height: | 1.2 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 52 reviews |
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 Just Cant Let The Book Down! Apr 20, 2010
After reading the Intro, I was a little intrigued. I have read Inside Delta Force From Mr. Eric Haney. I couldn't resist in purchasing this book. Just a brief note, when you start reading this title, you will be immersed from the start of the unit to one of its initial missions.
One thing for certain, I HAVE NEVER READ A BOOK FULLY IN 2 DAYS, a weekend to be exact. Once I started I couldn't leave the book down for no more, what seemed to be 10 minutes. I kept returning and reading on. It was packed with some great scenarios, and the bureaucracy involved in creating this such unit.
Charlie Beckwith definitely created a classic, and this title will remain in my library for years to come. It was extremely interesting the blood and sweat Colonel Beckwith had gone through to develop Delta Force to become a force to be reckoned with. This book is a definite must read for the person that is curious in Delta Force's unit creation and mission.
 Fine unit history through first years Mar 31, 2010
This is a good book, detailing the background of Charlie Beckwith (deceased 1994), the early years of the Delta Force, and some of the beginnings of what would ultimately become the US Special Operations Command. The contents are dated, ending with Beckwith's resignation after the Desert One mission in May of 1980. Beckwith had spent time with the British 22 SAS Regiment and he had the bug to create an SAS-like unit and to create a special operations capability in the Army. He became one of the loudest voices for this, and the anti-terror concerns of the mid-to-late seventies gave him the opportunity to create Delta. This book describes that effort over many years, and the planning, preparation, and execution of Operation Eagle Claw. It describes well the selection and qualification, training, equipment, and organization of Delta, though this information is now dated. All of this story, except for the tragic end of the mission at Desert One, occurred out of the public eye at the time, and the descriptions of the internal bureacratic battles in the DoD and Army just to get a new unit created are a fascinating look behind the curtain. So is the description of Eagle Claw, which became a complicated and untested effort involving the White House, Delta, Rangers, Air Force Special Operations, Marine helicopters, naval vessels, Egypt, and the assorted intelligence activity.
Not Bad May 17, 2009
This book gives the reader a fair idea of the work,pain,frustration(s), and so forth of creating a new unit within our military organization. I would like to have seen the author give more specific attetion to the training needed for the operators of the unit. The Mission detailed in this book apeared to be explained to give the reader a good understnding. over all I have no problem recomending this book. I injoyed it and was not didapointed over all. To bad the author did not do anouther book with more missons.
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A disappointing account of Delta Dec 24, 2007
The promise was always present, always ready to poke its head out and play peek-a-boo with the reader. Unfortunately it was never able to gain enough ground and become interesting to the reader. Beckwith's book can be broken down into three sections: Vietnam, Delta Initiation and Delta Organization.
The first section is a rather dull account of Beckwith's life in Vietnam. We get to see some of the details and descriptions of his exploits in Vietnam, but for the most part he doesn't really tell the reader much. The height of his Vietnam days are his rescue of a surrounded camp. Then it ends with Beckwith back in the States.
Section two drones on and on about how he was beating his head against a wall trying to get people within the army to recognize that there is a need for a Special Operations force such as Delta. We all know where this one ends, so no need for elaboration.
Section three is perhaps the most boring section. We finally get to see Delta Force come together. Will we get to hear about some of the details of their missions? No, in fact most of the latter half of the book is devoted to telling the day to day detail of what each officer and soldier was doing in order to maintain their training. So and so would wake up, blow up a wall, then do some running and push ups and then go and have a few beers. So and so would crunch the intel data and assess any threats, then he would brief the unit, and return to do some more data crunching before heading home early to get four hours of sleep, only to return the next day and start all over again. This could be interesting except for the fact that Beckwith does nothing but write about this for hundreds of pages. Finally, action, something to break up the monotony. We finally get to see a glimpse of Delta as it prepares to infiltrate Iran and free the hostages in the American Embassy. Some interesting detail here, but then it ends. Nothing really happened.
The book ends with nothing interesting being shared at all. If you discount the landing and subsequent take off in Iran then you are left with a Delta that did absolutely nothing except waste tax payer's dollars. Granted, Beckwith is still in the army, and perhaps they did do some missions that are still top secret and thus Beckwith couldn't talk about. Who really knows the circumstances? But not enough was talked about. Too much was talked about the set up and organization of Delta without showing what they could actually do.
Beckwith's writing is also quite horrible. Nothing about his writing made me want to read more. If you were to read it out loud I would imagine it would come out in a very monotone voice, with virtually no characterization. With Marcinko's Rogue Warrior you at least got to see and feel some of the action, to understand Marcinko's character and see it vividly within the words of his book. Not so here.
Because of the uniqueness of what Beckwith was writing on, as well as the fact that he might very well not have been able to write about other missions that could have been classified, I would give this an okay rating. I would certainly not recommend this book to others.
2.5 stars.
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Delta Force Dec 01, 2007
Easy reading; interesting how a new unit has difficulty in coming of age in the armed forces; read this first then follow it up with "Inside Delta Force" which will give more information on what it took for an individual to function within the Unit.
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