America's Special Forces: The Organization, Men, Weapons and the Actions of the United States Special Operations Forces - Hardcover

America's special forces (United States Special Operations Forces - SOF) are among the largest and are certainly the best equipped of the world's elite units. Their 46,000 fighting men and specialists have undertaken unconventional and special operations warfare in more than 140 countries around the globe, ranging from helping to sustain the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia-Herzegovina and search and rescue operations in Serbia to the evacuation of US and foreign noncombatants in Central Africa and the support of counterdrug operations in 22 countries. Every single week sees about 4,500 SOF operators undertaking classified and other special operations programs in 70 countries worldwide. They have at their disposal specially designed night and all-weather infiltration and exfiltration airplanes, scores of high-performance naval craft, as well as submarines and submersibles for clandestine insertion and extraction, a whole range of special weapons for laser targeting of enemy equipment, plus a variety of personal weapons, munitions, communications systems, and vehicles. Each year America's Special Operations Forces spend almost three-and-a-half billion dollars