num_pages: 304
description: It used to be said that the night belonged to Charlie. But that wasn't true where SEALs patrolled. For six months in 1970, fourteen men in Juliett Platoon of the Navy's SEAL Team One--incuding the author--carried out over a hundred missions in the Mekong Delta without a single platoon fatality. Their primary kidnap enemy soldiers--alive--for interrogation.
language: English
title: The Element of Surprise: Navy Seals in Vietnam
titlecomplete: The Element of Surprise: Navy Seals in Vietnam
genres: Military History, History, War, Nonfiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 463
publisher: Ballantine Books