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pb |
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9781932360127 |
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Soft Skull Press |
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2004-04-19 |
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ITEM OVERVIEW
Goff's career as a solider in Army Special Operations (Delta Force, Rangers, and Special Forces) took him from the invasions of Vietnam, Grenada, and Haiti to the training grounds of the Colombian and Peruvian armed forces. He taught Military Science at the US Military Academy at West Point, conducted classified missions in El Salvador and Guatemala, and was deployed with the ill-fated Task Force Ranger (of Black Hawk Down infamy) to Mogadisho. There are snapshots of these experiences in this book. But this is not a typical soldier's memoir. Goff engages in neither machismo nor maudlin soul-searching, and he is not content to merely tell stories. He interprets his own experience after years of post-military searching since leaving the military and draws some starkly brutal conclusions about the risks we all face in the dangerous last days of an unstable empire.
"Goff's impassioned and often vivid critique of US foreign policy derives from the perspective of a long and distinguished military career....Withering and powerful." —Publishers Weekly
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