Shadow Warriors starts off on the seventh of October, 1985, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. This is the day a large cruise ship was hijacked in the Mediterranean with Americans on board. Though, as the book proceeds, it goes all the way back to the Vietnam War in the 1950’s to the 1990’s while talking about how the Special Forces started from the small core units in the military. This book is most written from the view point of General Carl Stiner (Ret.), who helped write this book. He was very strong mentally and physically. Also, General Stiner served in the military from 1958 through 1993, being deployed in many wars as part of the special operations team. This general was very influential in the making of the Special Force teams we have
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The book goes very in depth about many wars and how the Special Forces in the military needed to be upgraded. At first the military was not comfortable with making the guerilla forces or special ops teams, making the book man versus man. The other major conflict in the story since is also man versus man because it goes in depth with war. Shadow Warriors shows first hand experiences from General Stiner, where he talks about the hardships the country went through as a whole during these …show more content…
One major reason I did not like this book; it was not one hundred percent accurate. General Stiner stated that CAS stands for “combat air support” while the correct term is “close air support”; there are many instances like this. Shadow Warriors, also, is more like an autobiography than anything. With three authors, all wanting to say something important, the book is unclear and the focal point is missing. The book is also filled with an extremely large amount of maps, dates, locations, and lists, which make it very hard to fully understand and grasp. I would only recommend this book to someone with an extremely high reading level and how has a large interest in the Special Forces and war
The book goes very in depth about many wars and how the Special Forces in the military needed to be upgraded. At first the military was not comfortable with making the guerilla forces or special ops teams, making the book man versus man. The other major conflict in the story since is also man versus man because it goes in depth with war. Shadow Warriors shows first hand experiences from General Stiner, where he talks about the hardships the country went through as a whole during these …show more content…
One major reason I did not like this book; it was not one hundred percent accurate. General Stiner stated that CAS stands for “combat air support” while the correct term is “close air support”; there are many instances like this. Shadow Warriors, also, is more like an autobiography than anything. With three authors, all wanting to say something important, the book is unclear and the focal point is missing. The book is also filled with an extremely large amount of maps, dates, locations, and lists, which make it very hard to fully understand and grasp. I would only recommend this book to someone with an extremely high reading level and how has a large interest in the Special Forces and war