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    Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story

    By Dick Couch and William Doyle

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    “Captures the essence of Naval Special Warfare from our storied beginnings to the current fight.” —Admiral WILLIAM H. McRAVEN

    Written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community, this vivid and definitive history of the U.S. Navy SEALs reveals the inside story behind the greatest combat operations of America's most celebrated warriors. Illustrated with forty pages of photographs and based on exclusive interviews with more than 100 U.S. frogmen (including multiple Medal of Honor recipients), here is "the first comprehensive history of the special operations force" (Military.com).

    New York Times bestselling authors Dick Couch—a former SEAL—and William Doyle chart the SEALs' story, from their origins in the daring Naval Combat Demolition Teams, Underwater Demolition Teams, Scouts and Raiders commando units, and OSS Operational Swimmers of World War II to their coming of age in Vietnam and rise to glory in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 11, 2014
    ISBN9780062336620
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    Dick Couch

    Dick Couch served as a Special Warfare Officer with the SEALs after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy. While a platoon leader with SEAL Team One in 1970, he led one of the only successful POW rescue operations of the Vietnam War. His nonfiction books include The Warrior Elite, The Finishing School, and Chosen Soldier.

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    • 2/5
      If you are looking for the "untold story", as promised by the title - keep looking. There is very little in this history of the Navy Seals that hasn't been written elsewhere. Much of what the authors choose to write about has been covered in much more detail, and with much more engagement of interest, in other books and articles.

      Part of this is the nature of the book. Dick Couch is a prolific author of military books, and is a former SEAL himself. But because of that, he is extremely careful to write only authorized material. This book not only went through the normal vetting process that former SEALS and others must submit to when writing of their experiences - the Navy gave particular blessing to this work, and gave a lot of access to Couch and his co-author William Doyle that other authors can't get. That access came with strings - big strings.

      UnSEALed is a hagiographic work - you won't find much, if any, criticism of SEAL operations or operators. The closest we get to that is when a few SEALS make critical remarks about how the teams were used in conflicts past. For example, several operators from the Vietnam era are quoted as believing that if the entire military had taken a more SEAL-like approach, the Vietnam War could have been won by the US. Whether you buy into that rather dubious idea or not, it isn't really a criticism of SEAL operations or tactics. You won't find anything like real criticism in this book - all SEALS are heros, and any mistakes made are left unaddressed, or at most attributed to rear echelon brass.

      In their zeal to never write about what the government doesn't want them to write about, they leave a lot of known material out. They reference the fact that US POWs in Hanoi were in direct communication with the US military/government during their imprisonment - but say that the method used is still "classified", over 40 years later. These methods have been written about extensively in other works - but you wouldn't know these methods are available publically by reading this book.

      The beginning of the book is also rather boring. In an effort to give a more full history of where the SEAL teams came from, the authors go back to WWII and the Naval Combat Demolition Teams, and the later UDT teams. While these men were extremely brave and worthy of writing about, the authors have little source material to work from. Most of the NCDT members are dead, and operational after-action reports were not the norm at that time. It takes quite a while into the book before things get interesting.

      I would love to see an outside author tackle this subject at length - without the hagiography, without the overly-adhered to restrictions of "national security".