During the Vietnam war, the U.S. sought to undermine Hanoi's subversion of the Saigon regime by sending Vietnamese operatives behind enemy lines. A secret to most Americans, this covert operation was far from secret in Hanoi: all of the commandos were killed or captured, and many were turned by the Communists to report false information. 
Spies and Commandos traces the rise and demise of this secret operation--started by the CIA in 1960 and expanded by the Pentagon beginning in1964--in the first book to examine the program from both sides of the war. Kenneth Conboy and Dale Andrad interviewed CIA and military personnel and traveled in Vietnam to locate former commandos who had been captured by Hanoi, enabling them to tell the complete story of these covert activities from high-level decision making to the actual experiences of the agents. 
The book vividly describes scores of dangerous missions-including raids against North Vietnamese coastal installations and the air--dropping of dozens of agents into enemy territory--as well as psychological warfare designed to make Hanoi believe the "resistance movement" was larger than it actually was. It offers a more complete operational account of the program than has ever been made available--particularly its early years--and ties known events in the war to covert operations, such as details of the "34-A Operations" that led to the Tonkin Gulf incidents in 1964. It also explains in no uncertain terms why the whole plan was doomed to failure from the start. 
One of the remarkable features of the operation, claim the authors, is that its failures were so glaring. They argue that the CIA, and later the Pentagon, were unaware for years that Hanoi had compromised the commandos, even though some agents missed radio deadlines or filed suspicious reports. Operational errors were not attributable to conspiracy or counterintelligence, they contend, but simply to poor planning and lack of imagination. 
Although it flourished for ten years under cover of the wider war, covert activity in Vietnam is now recognized as a disaster. Conboy and Andrad's account of that episode is a sobering tale that lends a new perspective on the war as it reclaims the lost lives of these unsung spies and commandos.

Spies and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam (Modern War Studies)

History

Kenneth J. Conboy

Dale Andrade

Asia

Univ Pr of Kansas

Cults of the Blood Gods is a new style of sourcebook for Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition that introduces the pernicious horror of twisted beliefs. Designed for players and Storytellers. An in\-character breakdown of the rise of esoteric beliefs among the ranks of the undead and how faith drives many of the major aspects of vampire culture. When you have already experienced death, why have faith? If you accept that you and everyone like you is cursed by God, why cling to His word? When you return from the other side as a blood\-drinking monster, what purpose serves belief?

Vampire: The Masquerade - Cults of the Blood Gods (ONXVTM5002)

Matthew Dawkins

Eddy Webb

John Burke

Jacqueline Bryk

Jacob Burgess

Lillian Cohen-Moore

Rachel Cole

Steffie De Vaan

Emily Griggs

Mike F. Tomasek Jr

Rachel Wilkinson

Onyx Path Publishing

The Gods made your World, and one way or another, they made you. Every God was once mortal. You stand at the threshold of humanity and divinity and cross over into the lands beyond the World. As the Titans rattle their cages, and you confront your own mortality, you live your myth, and you shed your mortality. Win or lose, the people will speak of your Legend forever more. Scion: Demigod presents the next stage in a Scion’s evolution with new pantheons, expanding upon setting elements and systems, and giving Storyguides and players a guide for massive setpiece fights in the Storypath system. It also gives guidance on how to play through the requisite Milestones to reach Godhood and claim your character’s birthright. This book includes: Divinity dice, collateral damage rules, and Dominion Boons to showcase your character’s power Demigod-level expansions for Birthrights Five new pantheons ― Mesopotamian, Incan, Polynesian, Slavic, and Mongolian, all suitable for parentage of your Scion Storyguiding advice on how to play the ascent to apotheosis and becoming a God

Scion Second Edition: Book Three - Demigod (ONXSCI011)

Lauren Roy

Danielle Lauzon

Vera Vartanian

James Mendez Hodes

Meghan Fitzgerald

Erykah Fassett

Dixie Cochran

Cary Kingdom

Josh Krutt

Geoffrey McVey

Neall Raemonn Price

Monica Speca

Elsa Sjunneson

P.A. Vazquez

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