"Based on thousands of pages of recently declassified top-secret SOG [Special Operations Group] documents, as well as interviews with sixty officers who ran SOG's covert programs and the senior officials who directed this secret war, including Robert McNamara, Walt Rostow, Richard Helms, William Colby, William Westmoreland, and Victor Krulak".--Jacket.

Vietnamese collection. Includes maps of: SOG's Instruments of Secret Warfare; Location of In-place Teams During 1967; Strata Team Targets; Project Humidor's Paradise Island; Area of U.S. Naval Operations in North Vietnam, 1964-1965; Laos Area of Operations; Cambodia; Ho Chi Minh Trail. "Other editions published by Perennial (paperback edition), an imprint of HarperCollins, have a different substitle "Untold story of spies, saboteurs, and covert warriors in North Vietnam" with the same pagination and different size (xvii, 408 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm). Library's copy 2 is published by the same publisher has the same year but different pagination and size (xix, 390 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. This edition also includes bibliographical references (pages 330-374) and index.

If they can do it, so can we -- Standing up MACVSOG -- Going north -- Drive them crazy with Psywar -- From the sea -- Crossing the fence -- The great divide; SOG and U.S. military strategy -- Presidential control of the covert war; Kennedy aggressiveness and Johnson trepidation.