Publisher's Synopsis
In 1957, some 58 Vietnamese soldiers were given military training by US Army Special Forces troops. Ten years later, the Special Forces - popularly called the "Green Berets" - were advising and assisting over 40,000 paramilitary troops, plus another 40,000 Regional Forces and Popular Forces soldiers. In this book, a former Commander of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Vietnam traces the development of this effort from 1961 to 1971 and notes the successes and failures of a unique programme undertaken by the US Army for the first time in its history.
