Forging America’s Special Operations Forces

Forging America's Special Operations Forces For more than three centuries, America's special operations forces have evolved to meet challenges that conventional military units could not. Forging America's Special Operations Forces tells the story of how these elite organizations came to exist, tracing their development from Rogers' Rangers and the Office of Strategic Services to the Green Berets, Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, Delta Force, Marine Raiders, and the creation of the modern Special Operations community. Rather than focusing on weapons or famous missions, Rex Fairbairn Jr. explores the ideas, leaders, and historical events that shaped America's most elite military organizations. Through war, innovation, and institutional change, this book reveals how generations of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines built the special operations capability that continues to influence military strategy around the world. A compelling history of innovation, adaptation, and service, this is the story behind the organizations that forged America's modern Special Operations Forces.