Eyes on Target: Inside Stories from the Brotherhood of the U.S. Navy SEALs Author: Visit Amazon's Scott McEwen Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1455575690 | Format: PDF
Eyes on Target: Inside Stories from the Brotherhood of the U.S. Navy SEALs Description
About the Author
Scott McEwen is co-author of the #1
New York Times bestseller
American Sniper, about a U.S. Navy SEAL with the greatest number of recorded kills. His book will be a major motion picture in 2013. Scott lives in San Diego, California.
Richard Miniter is the author of three
New York Times best sellers:
Losing Bin Laden,
Shadow War and, in 2012,
Leading From Behind. He writes the National Security column for Forbes.com, and his articles have appeared in
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Newsweek, Readers Digest, The Atlantic Monthly, National Review, and
The New Republic. Richard lives in Washington D.C.
- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Center Street (February 25, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1455575690
- ISBN-13: 978-1455575695
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
This is a bunch of recycled information previously released in other books released in the past 2 years or more. Information on seal team six and how its creation came about.(Rouge Warrior) The botched Delta Force operation( inside Delta Force) Basically the only new information was on the Benghazi terroist attack. That was just a could of ,would of should of timeline for what could of, would of and should of happened. I do respect the fact that the author gives credit to the two seals that lost thier lives. Glen Doherty and Ty Woods as well as the others who lost thier lives that horriable day. I am not in any way bashing this book. It is a wonderful book if you are just getting in to military history or the war on terror. It serves as a great referance book to everything from Seal Team Six and the Rouge Warrior himself even Inside Delta Force and it creator Eric Haney. That way you can go and purchase(I recommend to please do this) each book and learn not only what it took for each person to sucessfuly complete each process to gain entry to these elite groups but the sacrifices and never quite attitutd it took to accomplish the rights to call themselves, Delta Force, Navy Seals, Rangers, Green Berets or Air Force Para rescue operators. Check out other books like Brandon Webbs-Red Circle, Dick Marcinco's- Rouge Warrior, Glen Doherty,Brandon Webbs book-Navy Seal Sniper and they will lead you to many many more great reads like Marcus Latrells-Lone Survivor, Chris Kyles-American Sniper also check all of Bing Wests books on the war on terror and then decide for yourself if you think the war and wars on terror across the globe is wrong.
Eyes on Target is a rehash of all the Navy SEAL books that have come out recently and I will explain. Let me first state that I am an avid reader of Navy SEAL books and own about 20 oriented books about the Teams. This is the main reason I know that it is just rehashed material and the reason I feel my opinion needs to be expressed with this review. Eyes on Target simply summarizes the main Navy SEAL stories hitting the headlines within the last couple of years plus stories that has been circulated for years:
-The Navy SEALs beginnings
-The creation of SEAL Team Six
-Operation Red Wings
-Fallujah (Persecutions of 3 Navy SEALs by our own government for false accusations of detainee abuse)
-Benghazi, Libya (Talks about what happened and how we could have prevented it).
-The Bin Laden Raid
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It offers no new insights into anything that other books didn't go in depth with. For the chapter of Operation Red Wings substitute the book Lone Survivor which is 390 pages of the mission by someone who was there (Marcus Luttrell) and who goes in extreme detail of what happened instead of skimming it like an afterthought.
To look into the Navy SEALs beginnings look no further than Greg E. Mathieson Sr./ David Gatley's book United States Naval Special Warfare U.S. Navy SEALs. A huge book that goes through the Team's humble beginnings even before the UDT's of the WW2 and how the Teams came into existence. (Although this book has many punctuation and grammatical errors >:-( )
The Benghazi Libya section was the most in depth of the book but I feel other books was better such as Benghazi: The Definitive Report.
For the Bin Laden look to No Easy Day.
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