The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) was officially activated in January 1964 ... this highly classified U.S. joint-service organization combined elements from the Army Special Forces, Navy SEALs, and Marine Force recon units, as well as personnel from the Air Force and CIA. It also fielded a division-sized element of South Vietnamese military personnel, indigenous Montagnards, ethic Chinese Nungs, and Taiwanese pilots. Operating in the dark shadows of the jungles of Vietnam, this unique, highly specialized unit participated in the planning and conduct of the wars significant operations. During its nine-year existence, MACVSOG played a key role in ongoing air operations over North Vietnam, the covert war in Laos, the Tet Offensive, Operations Lam Son 719, the Easter invasion, and Son Tay POW Raid ... Black ops, Vietnam is a complete history of the MACVSOG unit drawn from declassified documents and memoirs ... and comes as a timely blueprint for today's large-scale, multi-ethnic, unconventional, and counter-insurgency operations.

1964 : OPLAN 34A --1965 : shining brass -- 1966 : mission expansion -- 1967 : Daniel Boone -- 1968 : suspicions and stand-down -- 1969 : commando hunt -- 1970 : the second Indochina War -- January 1971-30 April 1972 : drawdown -- May 1972-March 1973 : STDAT-158.