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No Room For Error

The Covert Operations of America's Spcial Tactics Units from Iran to Afghanistan

by John T. Carney
Benjamin F. Schemmer
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When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite "special Tactics" team in the late 1970s to work with special-operations forces, John T. Carney was the man they turned to. Since then Carney and the U.S. Air Force Special Tactics units have circled the world on clandestine missions. They have combated terrorists and overthrown dangerous dictators. They have suffered eighteen times the casualty rate of America's conventional forces. But they have gotten the job done. Now, for the first time, Colonel Carney lifts the veil of secrecy and reveals in No Room For Error what really goes on inside the special-operations forces that are at the forefront of contemporary warfare.

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  • Release date

    June 30, 2006

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      • ISBN: 9781593162818
      • File size: 294723 KB
      • Duration: 10:14:00

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The title of this work is somewhat misleading. Although it discusses the activities of the country's Special Operations Forces (SOF) from 1979 to the present, it focuses on the role of the Air Force's Combat Controllers. Colonel Carney, who helped create the Controllers (who are something akin to the Airborne's Pathfinders of WWII), gives us a well-written, engaging memoir of his service and that of his unit. His account of the failed Iranian hostage rescue is well worth listening to, as are his accounts of Grenada, Panama, and other actions through our present war on terror. Lawlor's reading is quite good. His tenor voice makes the story seem to be that of a man younger than the author. This is by no means negative, for Lawlor's delivery is fluid and clear. M.T.F. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine

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