The Perfect Soldier: Special Operations, Commandos, and the Future of U.S. Warfare

by James F. Dunnigan

Book Overview

Fox news analyst, Dunnigan, examines the role of the U.S. special forces in the changing face of military action today. Tracing the history of the most highly trained and deadly forces from all around the world and throughout the ages, he reveals the lineage of these perfect soldiers' back to the prehistoric age of the hunter society. At once a fascinating history and a brilliant analysis of the constant battle to master modern warfare, this volume...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806524154
• ISBN13: 9780806524153
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

JFD again delivers "approachable" military history & info

No work on a subject this involved can possibly be all things to all people. That is not James F. Dunnigan's goal with this book...or any other book he has ever written. The excellence of this book is its capacity for exhibiting military data in contexts that the average reader can understand. Nearly all of Dunnigan's writing is pursued with this goal. To demand that one must have "lived" a military background in order to write about it accurately and compellingly can be argued in another forum. This book delivers what it sets forth to achieve, doing so in a way that readers who do not have exhaustive military backgrounds will both appreciate and comprehend.