Thompson, Leroy.
1. Badges and Insignia of the Elite Forces. London: Arms and Armour, 1991.
Gibish notes that U.S. forces are covered on pages 14-33.
2. Dirty Wars: Elite Forces vs. the Guerrillas. New York: Sterling Press, 1991. [UK]: Davis & Charles, 1991.
Surveillant 2.1: "Counterinsurgeny expert ... describes guerrilla and counter-guerrilla operations throughout history."
3. The Illustrated History of the U.S. Army Special Forces. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1987. [Gibish]
4. The Rescuers: The World's Top Anti-Terrorist Units. Boulber, CO: Paladin, 1986. [Wilcox]
5. The U.S. Army in Vietnam. Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1990.
Gibish notes that Special Operations Forces are covered on pages 95-125.
Thompson, Robert [Sir]. Defeating Communist Insurgency: Experiences from Malaya and Vietnam. London: Chatto & Windus, 1966. Defeating Communist Insurgency: The Lessons of Malaya and Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1966.
Time-Life Books. Editors.
Commando Operations. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1991.
Time-Life Books. Editors.
Special Forces and Missions -- The New Face of War. Alexandria, VA:
Time-Life Books, 1990.
Tovar, B. Hugh. "Thoughts
on Running a Small War." International Journal of Intelligence and
Counterintelligence 1, no. 3 (1986): 85-93.
"[I]ntelligence (including counterintelligence) and covert action go hand-in-glove. The relationship is symbiotic; separation would be disastrous for both." (p. 87)
Towle, Philip A. Pilots
and Rebels: The Use of Aircraft in Unconventional Warfare, 1918-1988.
Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1989. [Gibish]
Von Hassell, Agostino. Strike Force: U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations. Charlottesville,
VA: Howell Press, 1991. [Gibish]
Walker, Greg. At
the Hurricane's Eye: U.S. Special Forces from Vietnam to Desert Storm. New York: Ballantine Books, 1993. New York: Ivy Books, 1994.
Waller, Douglas C.
The Commandos: The Inside Story of America's Secret Soldiers. New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
For Surveillant 3.6, this is an "excellent review of the role of Special Forces." The author "insists that the Special Forces are too politically sensitive to be left in the military's hands.... Highly recommended."
McCombie, Parameters, Autumn 1995, says that Waller's is "a creditable and timely account of the training and employment" of special operations forces. The author provides chapters on "Army Special Forces, Navy SEALs, 20th Special Operations Squadron, and the Delta Force."
Walsh, Michael J. [LTCOM/USN (Ret.)], and Greg Walker. Seal! From Vietnam's Phoenix Program to Central America's Drug Wars: Twenty-Six Years with a Special Operations Warrior. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. New York: Pocket, 1995. [pb]
From back cover: "This is the extraordinary story of Lt. Cmdr. Michael J. Walsh, a veteran of twenty-six years of combat with the Navy's ... SEALs."
Merrill, www.milmag.com, notes that Walsh served five tours in Vietnam and "in several other countries, including Panama, Bolivia, Ecuador, Grenada and Lebanon. His duties in these countries involved training, intelligence, surveillance and some combat operations in Panama and Grenada."
White, Jeffrey B. "Some Thoughts on Irregular Warfare." Studies in Intelligence 39, no. 5 (1996): 51-59. "Irregular Warfare: A Different Kind of Threat." American Intelligence
Journal 17, no. 1/2 (1996), 57-63.
"Irregular warfare ... remains confoundingly unaffected by changes in technology. In an irregular conflict, sociology, psychology, and history have more to say about the nature of the conflict, including its persistence and intensity."
White, Terry. Swords
of Lightening: Special Forces and the Changing Face of Warfare. London:
Brassey's, 1992.
FILS 12.2: "'Special forces and Intelligence are inter-dependent'... (p. 99) [The author] emphasizes elite military units over the generally more secretive foreign intelligence services.... [The work is an] informative, comprehensive, and contemporary overview."
Williamson, Charles
A. "Special Operations Intelligence." American Intelligence
Journal 11, no. 3 (1990): 15-17.
Wilson, George C. "The
Quiet Capabilities of Special Operations Forces Are Tailormade for This
Era." In Almanac of Seapower, 1994, 56-63. Arlington, VA: Navy
League of the United States, 1994.
Wood, John S., Jr.
"Counterinsurgency Coordination at the National and Regional Level."
Military Review 46, no. 3 (1966): 80-85.
Worthington, George
[RADM/USN (Ret)]. "Whither Naval Special Warfare?" U.S. Naval
Institute Proceedings 122, no. 1 (Jan. 1996): 61-63.
"After more than a decade of revitalization, how will [special operations forces] be employed?" Worthington expresses particular concern that past SOF experience will be standardized into rigid doctrine, while it is unconventionality that is really the point of SOFs.
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