Overview
After playing cat and mouse with a 10,000-strong Iraqi Armored Division to gain crucial intelligence, the Scouts of Marine 2nd Tank Division think they are on their way home, but their war isn't over. August 1990, 30,000 Iraqi troops have invaded Kuwait and are in a position to influence nearly half of the world's oil supply. The United Nations condemn the aggression but it is clear that only military intervention is going to displace Saddam Hussein. Captain Joseph 'Quarry' Samuels and the Marines of Scout Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Division are tasked with discovering the strength and deployment of Iraqi troops. Quarry and his scouts are soon engaged in a game of cat and mouse with the 10,000-strong 108th Iraqi Armored Division. Operating behind enemy lines, they put themselves squarely in danger's way in order to collect the intelligence necessary to launch military operations. When hostilities end, with the greatest one-sided military victory of all time, the Marines deserve to be on their way home. However, Quarry remains in Kuwait to continue the deadly game with an old nemesis, but this time with a new ally on his side. AUTHOR: Chuck Johnston is a retired US Marine with 28 years of service. He currently teaches in the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center for the Department of Defence.
Full Product Details
Author: Chuck Johnston
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 9781636240589
ISBN 10: 1636240585
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 17 November 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Mr. Johnston leverages his time deployed during the First Gulf War to provide a marine's point of view as the main narration for the story. -- ARGunners.com Casemate has a long history of publishing high quality military history non-fiction. Lately, they have expanded their range of work to include well written novels using wartime settings. -- WWII History Magazine By incorporating such things as call signs and entire briefings, Johnston immerses the reader into the ongoing, swiftly moving military operations...Military action fans will look forward to more from this talented author. -- Publishers Weekly A compulsively riveting novel of war and intrigue from cover to cover, Marine Scouts by Chuck Johnston is the stuff of which block buster movies are made. -- Midwest Book Review
By incorporating such things as call signs and entire briefings, Johnston immerses the reader into the ongoing, swiftly moving military operations...Military action fans will look forward to more from this talented author. -- Publishers Weekly
Author Information
Chuck Johnston is a retired US Marine with 28 years of service. He currently teaches in the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center for the Department of Defence.
