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Matthew Mitchell made an excellent move at the beginning of the book. He brought up the Coast Guard's "brown water" operations role in Vietnam, a specific precursor to what would happen a decade and a half later in Bolivia and Peru. The tie-in was not only thematic; it was personal. The man under whose watch the special Drug Interdiction Assist Team - under one of its names - operated was none other than Commandant Paul Yost, the recipient of a Silver Star in Vietnam as a result of combat.
The logic seemed solid. The War on Drugs had been declared in the early 1970s (narcotics began to flow into the United States in the late 1930s as a Prohibition antecedent) and by the 1980s cocaine had a firm grip on the nation. While intercepting narcotraffickers at sea was yielding some results, Yost hoped to strike at the heart of the industry. Handpicked men arrived in Bolivia to assist the local military forces, many of whom were in the pockets of the drug lords, to raid production facilities and blow up airstrips. In time, the narcotraffickers would fight back. The operations expanded into other countries, bent on taking down the scourge of drugs hitting the American streets and claiming American lives. This book is an important addition to any Coast Guard historian's shelf.

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