The war MACV-SOG wasn’t allowed to tell you about. Finally on paper.
The documented history of America’s secret war in Laos and Cambodia. Every claim sourced, every myth corrected.
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From an old 82nd Airborne LURP, my heartfelt thank you for this outstanding documentary.
My old man was MACV-SOG. Served in 70-71. He never spoke about any of it even on his death bed.
Thanks. That explains some of the things I saw.
Thanks for the real education that was shown.
Thanks for posting and doing your best to maintain accuracy through research.
The narrative arc on this is exceptional.
Very very interesting and very well told.
This is incredibly interesting. The mindset and tactical approach of the team is so ultra high performance.
I had no idea what was going on in 1968, but my guess would be SOG extractions after learning about them.
Every quote is a comment left under one of our YouTube documentaries, reproduced word for word. Names withheld, film named.
Every factual claim in the book is sourced. When serious sources disagree, it prints the disagreement instead of picking the prettier number. No dialogue is reconstructed, no composite characters exist, and where a story rests on the testimony of the men who were there, it tells you whose testimony it is.
Where the popular version of a story and the documented version part ways, the book prints a boxed correction. Here is one, free, from Chapter One:
The myth: a 100 percent casualty rate means everyone in MACV-SOG died.
The record: the figure describes wounds outrunning the number of men. John Plaster, the unit’s veteran-historian, puts recon casualties at over one hundred percent because men were wounded, returned, and were wounded again. In 1968, essentially every recon man on the ground was wounded at least once, and about half were killed (Plaster, via HistoryNet). Not across a career. In one year.
The full source trail is printed in the back of the book, and Chapter Six hands you the verification kit itself: after it, no AI-generated war story fools you again. The last line of that chapter is the whole ethos: Go check us.
One chapter of the six, stripped to a single printable page: the fourteen objects a SOG team leader carried across the fence, organized under the doctrine’s own commandments, with the source trail printed at the bottom, because even the free things keep the promise.
The card shows you what they carried. The book shows you why: who designed each object, what it cost, and which legends about the kit are false. Print the card. Pin it up. Pass it on.
The rifle, the ruck, the radio, the rations, the armor, the boots, and the offices that chose them. Nine chapters, every claim sourced, two of our own films corrected by name.
Yes, and you’d be in good company; it’s the most common reason people buy it. Purchase it under your own email, then forward him the delivery email, or print either edition on plain paper and hand it over. The Large Print Edition exists exactly for him.
No. It’s the videos, researched past what a fifteen-minute film can hold. The book carries the full numbers with their sources, the contested figures printed as ranges, the complete glossary and bibliography, and Myth vs. Record corrections, including corrections to claims our own films repeated before the research caught them. If the videos are the tour, this is the archive.
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Seven days: reply to your receipt, tell us in one sentence what fell short, and we refund you. That sentence is the whole process. There is also a standing offer with no expiry: catch a factual claim that fails its own source and the refund comes with your name in the corrections log of the next revision.
Yes. The accounting agencies are still closing SOG cases, and sharp readers, including the veterans in our comment sections, catch things. When the record improves, the book is revised, and every revision goes to every past buyer free.
No. This is an independent work of history. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the U.S. Department of Defense or any veterans’ organization. Photographs are drawn from the National Archives and other public-domain repositories, each credited where it appears.
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