Delta Force
A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit

I initially started reading this after finishing Eric Haney's visceral "Inside Delta Force" and mistakenly felt that it was a bit underwhelming. Haney's book is loaded with memorable action and you feel you're dropped right into the middle of it; from the Delta selection process to hunting down comm......more

" yes sir no sir three bags full" /-Col. Beckwith's favorite line In this personal memoir, Col. Charlie Beckwith lays out in explicit detail the creation, training, and deployment of Delta Force in it's beginning stages from its roll as "Delta Project" during the siege of Plei me in Vi......more

Mostly, I thought this was a very hard book to read. I could understand it all, but I often had to read passages 2 or 3 times to figure out what the author meant. That's unfortunate because I think Col Beckwith was a great man and had lots of wisdom in his memoir. The book is his memoir and covers h......more

A review of the beginnings of Delta Force told by the man who came up with it and how he came to that point. A little long with lots of details but as a whole an interesting look at our elite force and what one had to do to become part of Delta. Overlaying the founding of Delta is the first official......more

Ultimately its a historical memoir, a lot of men in senior Military positions have never left their own thoughts on paper and history and the students of it are poorer for it. He was a man that saw the future of war and he was really the only kind of man able to keep dogging senior officers about ho......more