Expendable Elite
One Soldier's Journey into Covert Warfare
Victory Edition
Daniel Marvin

When a 32 year-old Green Beret Captain refuses to abandon his friends and principles, he and his men become the enemy. An armored regiment of ARVN (Army of the Republic of [South] Vietnam) soldiers along with US advisors is dispatched to... "take control."

A story suppressed for years, "Expendable Elite" gives unique insights into the use of Special Forces in unconventional warfare, something that has become commonplace in today's conflicts

As the first Special Forces Commander given the TOP SECRET assignment to take the war to neutral Cambodia, "Dangerous Dan" Marvin gives you an insider's view into that world where "independent operations" mix with shadowy intrigue.

"Dan, if you take this command and accept this TOP SECRET mission, you will be on your own. When you leave this room, it will be as if we never met. We can't and won't stand behind you if you are caught doing what I am about to tell you to do. Got it, Captain?"

This true story of a Special Forces officer in Vietnam in the mid-sixties will acquaint you with the unique nature of Special Forces and how covert operations are developed and masked to permit – even sponsor – assassination, outright purposeful killing of innocents, illegal use of force and bizarre methods in combat operations.

"Expandable Elite" reveals the fear that these elite warriors share with no other military person – not the fear of the enemy they have been trained to fight in battle, but fear of the wrath of our government should they no longer be needed and find themselves classified as... expendable.

A centerpiece of this book is the CIA mission to assassinate Cambodian Crown Prince Norodum Sihanouk, the author's unilateral aborting of the mission, and the drama surrounding the dispatch by the CIA of an ARVN regiment to attack, destroy the camp and kill every person in it as retribution for standing up against the CIA.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Foreword
Preface by Doug Valentine
Foreword by Martha Raye
Introduction by Jacqueline K. Powers
Acronyms, Terms and Abbreviations

1. Secret Orders
2. Massacre West of Rach Gia
3. A Tiger Named Le
4. Taking the War to Cambodia
5. A Test of Courage
6. Wait for the Southern Wind
7. The Shotgun
8. We Almost Bought the Farm
9. But They're Women, Sir!
10. Hell's Fury Unleashed at Khanh Binh
11. Victory at Khanh Binh
12. Mission: Assassinate a Prince
13. Apocalypse at An Phu
14. We Fade Away
15. A President's Fantasy is a Soldier's Curse

Epilogue Part One – Official Denial and Subterfuge
Epilogue Part Two – Speaking with Forked Tongues
Epilogue Part Three – Words of Pain, Anguish and Wisdom

Publisher's Afterword
Map – Detail of the Vietnam - Cambodia Border

Appendices
1. Intelligence Summary: 27 Dec. '65

2. Facility, Weapons and Equipment Status: 28 Dec. '65
3. Mission and Forces Report: 28 Dec. '65
4. Psychological Operations Estimate: Apr. '66
5. Intelligence Summary: 18 May '66
6. Cambodian Newspaper Article: 23 May '66
7. Intelligence Report: 31 May '66
8. Civic Action Report: 31 May '66
9. Psychological Operations Report: 31 May '66
10. Weapons, Ammunition and Equipment Status: 31 May '66
11. Operation Snuff Crown Planning Paper: 12 Jun. '66
12. Operation Snuff Crown Planning Paper: 13 Jun. '66
13. Intelligence Summary: 13 Jun. '66
14. Combat Statistics: 1 Jan through 31 Jul '66

Notes
Index with Pronunciation Aide
Photographs, 24 pages

~New to the Victory Edition~
Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just... Go to Court?
Epilogue Part Four – Shocked!... but not Forsaken
Epilogue Part Five – Trials and...
The Documents – LTC Marvin (Ret.), A Soldier and His Country

Postscript by John Caylor

502 pages, 6 x 9, Paperback, Illustrated

Price - $19.95