Shadow Warriors: The Covert War in Korea

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Intelligence Breakdown in Korea. Da Capo Press, Lacking any evidence to support the story, this "is a prime example of a trust me memoir. The Covert War in Korea. Cutler , Proceedings Breuer paints a colorful picture of these behind-the-scenes war efforts.

For Stoces , WIR Naval Institute Proceedings , Mar. In a very short time in he created a coordinated and effective intelligence system in the SW Pacific area from bare bones. Click for text of a longer version of this article, made available through the courtesy of Dr. The Secrets of Inchon: According to Seamon , Proceedings Start reading Shadow Warriors: The Covert War in Korea on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle?

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Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Showing of 6 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. I've read quite a bit about Vietnam and post-Vietnam special ops stuff but this was my first text on the Korean War. Unfortunately, even if what is contained in this text is true I have serious reservations about this text. This book is written with such a slant that it almost sounds like early 80's anti-communist propaganda!!!

For one thing, it constantly uses racial slurs to make the North Koreans, Chinese, Russians and the Japanese? It continues to wave flags about how great the Western "democratic" forces were and how evil the Communists were. Now I'm not making a judgement call here, but I think I can make up my own mind if facts are presented as objectively as possible I'm not 2 years old and have to be told what is good or evil.

If that's not enough for you, the language used to describe operations is repetitive and dull.

I now see why this is "bargain price" book. You'll thank me later. The United States' stance against global communism would endure its first bloody test. Breuer reveals that perilous cloak-and-dagger operations were equally common on both sides of the conflict.

Whether it be evidence supporting direct Soviet military involvement in Korea or CIA operations deep into the Chinese mainland, Breuer writes with a flair that hooks the fan of political intrigue while presenting enough historical detail to satisfy the avid military historian. Upon perusing Breuer's notes, most of his book is based upon memoirs of top-level officials in the Korean conflict and author interviews with key players.

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Nevertheless, further government documentation appears warranted to support the author's arguments. However, Shadow Warriors is highly entertaining as a work of literature and most informative into a realm of military history of which most casual historians are unaware. I knew very little about the subject of special operations in Korea.

This book held much new information for me.

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It begins with the story of a deep-behind-the-lines assassination of an NKPA general and gallops on from there. Easily readable and well organized, including footnotes and a handy index.

This is a valuable piece of history. I found this book to be a pleasant, easy read on a subject that is hardly covered in school. The language was short and sweet, chapters were a breeze to get through, and I feel like I learned something about a subject I am just starting to get into. If you look through your options on books for the Korean War, there are a plethora of biblical sized texts, which just wasn't going to do it for me.

The most obnoxious part of this book was the way this author made such a big deal about certain folks mainly British communist spies as being homosexual.

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I understand that in the 's being homosexual was considered a mental illness by most people, but the author just seemed to go on and on about these particular people's sexuality, and their traipsing around with men. You're not fooling me! Overall, however, I enjoyed it as a nice quick read about a very important time in history. When I first purchased this book I thought it would be a look at modern special operations actions on the Korean Penninsula, I misread the description.

It is not about modern special operations at all, however it was a well written history of military deception operations during the Korean War. It was a quick, fun read and offered several examples of special operations throughout the Korean conflict and how they were integrated with the conventional military operations.

This seems small but the whole book thus becomes questionable. See all 6 reviews.