Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces

Who: Linda Robinson, senior writer for U.S. News & World Report; Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2000-2001; recipient of the 1999 Maria Moors Cabot prize form Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism
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In Masters of Chaos, veteran journalist Linda Robinson provides an exclusive look at America’s most secretive warriors, the U.S. Army Special Forces. Over a three-year period, Ms. Robinson traveled with the Special Forces on the frontlines, interviewed them at length on their home bases, and studied their doctrine, methods and history. The new generation of Special Forces soldiers are experts in insurgencies and terror threats. With privileged accessed to the closed world of the the Army's elite unit, Ms. Robinson illustrates the operating techniques of the Green Berets, and discusses why they are uniquely suited to confront the threats of the 21st Century.