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Special Operations in World War II - British and American Irregular Warfare (Hardcover)
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Special Operations in World War II - British and American Irregular Warfare (Hardcover)
Series: Campaigns and Commanders Series
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British and American commanders first used modern special forces in
support of conventional military operations during World War II.
Since then, although special ops have featured prominently in
popular culture and media coverage of wars, the academic study of
irregular warfare has remained as elusive as the practitioners of
special operations themselves. This book is the first comprehensive
study of the development, application, and value of Anglo-American
commando and special forces units during the Second World War.
Special forces are intensively trained, specially selected
military units performing unconventional and often high-risk
missions. In this book, Andrew L. Hargreaves not only describes
tactics and operations but also outlines the distinctions between
commandos and special forces, traces their evolution during the
war, explains how the Anglo-American alliance functioned in the
creation and use of these units, looks at their command and control
arrangements, evaluates their impact, and assesses their
cost-effectiveness.
The first real impetus for the creation of British specialist
formations came in the desperate summer of 1940 when, having been
pushed out of Europe following defeat in France and the Low
Countries, Britain began to turn to irregular forces in an effort
to wrest back the strategic initiative from the enemy. The
development of special forces by the United States was also a
direct consequence of defeat. After Pearl Harbor, Hargreaves shows,
the Americans found themselves in much the same position as Britain
had been in 1940: shocked, outnumbered, and conventionally
defeated, they were unable to come to grips with the enemy on a
large scale. By the end of the war, a variety of these units had
overcome a multitude of evolutionary hurdles and made valuable
contributions to practically every theater of operation.
In describing how Britain and the United States worked
independently and cooperatively to invent and put into practice a
fundamentally new way of waging war, this book demonstrates the two
nations' flexibility, adaptability, and ability to innovate during
World War II.
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