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Senseless Secrets is a military history of the United States through its intelligence operations, covering more than 200 years of intelligence breakdowns in every American war, from the Revolution¿s Benedict Arnold to the War on Terror and the chaos surrounding the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

Had Lieutenant George S. Patton not served on the southern border during the Mexican Expedition of 1916, there might never have been a General George S. Patton who took the world by storm as a bold and daring commander during World War II. Relying on Patton¿s detailed personal journals of his eight months in Mexico, Michael Lee Lanning describes the young officer¿s exploits during the hunt for Pancho Villa. As an aide to General John Pershing,...

Eleven years before Rosa Parks resisted going to the back of the bus, a young black second lieutenant, hungry to fight Nazis in Europe, refused to move to the back of a U.S. Army bus in Texas and found himself court-martialed. The defiant soldier was Jack Roosevelt Robinson, already in 1944 a celebrated athlete in track and football and in a few years the man who would break Major League Baseball's color barrier. This was the pivotal moment in...

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During World War II, some 10, 000 American bombers and fighters were shot down over Europe. Of the crews aboard, 26, 000 men were killed, while 30, 000 survived being shot down only to be captured and made prisoners of war. Against the longest of odds, nearly 3, 000 airmen made it to the ground alive, evaded capture, and escaped to safety. These men proudly called themselves the Blister Club.Drawing on tens of thousands of pages of mostly unta...

Not since flamboyant, fringed-sleeved Gerry Spence has the courtroom seen anyone who can compare to Tony Buzbee. His fame and reputation increases with each successive judgment-including multi-million dollar victories against mega corporations, such as BP and the Ford Motor Company, and government entities such as FEMA and the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association. Tony Buzbee-a product of a small-town upbringing in East Texas, an education at...

This final advice, thoughts, remembrances, and guidelines to life by a dying grandfather to his granddaughter offers "things that I have not yet taught her and experiences that I want her to know about and consider." Its poignant information and guidance, delivered with honesty, humor, and affection that is thought-provoking for all ages. It a book that every grandparent should write and every grandchild should read.More than 130 widely varyin...

These are the stories Vietnam vets tell over beers at Legion halls and VFW posts-stories of young men tangled up in the chaos of landing zones and nameless jungle hills, in the boredom of base camps, in the confusion of a controversial war. Raw, often gut-wrenching, sometimes funny, these war stories describe slices of individual tours of duty, from the firefights to the friendships, and capture the kaleidoscope of the American experience in V...

Texas, home to more than 1.7 million living veterans (the second largest number of any state), is also home to six nationally run and four state-run veterans cemeteries. The Veterans Cemeteries of Texas recounts the stories of these ten official final resting places for Texas veterans, creating a complete guide to these solemn bivouacs of the dead.

It has been eight years since Texas Tech University fired Mike Leach, its most successful football coach ever. Double T Double Cross released two years later, exposed the backroom deals behind his dismissal. Now Double Take reveals what has happened to the participants and events since with a new introduction and afterword to the 2017 edition. Even though life has moved on for the participants in the story, there remains a keen interest in Lea...

These are the stories Vietnam vets tell each other at reunions and over beers.

One company commander's battle against drugs and racial conflict in the war to rebuild the post-Vietnam armyIn 1974, being a soldier was neither an easy nor a popular profession, as Captain Michael Lee Lanning found out when he assumed command of Company A, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division in Schweinfurt, Germany. The start-up problems of the all-volunteer forces were still painfully evident in the United States Army. Morale...

Originally published: New York: Ballantine Books, 1987.

From its inception, graduates of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now Texas A&M, University, have marched off to fight in every conflict in which the US has been involved. The Vietnam War was no different. Michael Lee Lanning, Texas A&M, University class of 1968, has gathered over three dozen recollections from those who served.

Behind-enemy-lines stories of elite Marines in VietnamForce Recon companies were the eyes and ears of the Marine Corps in Vietnam. Classified as special operations capable, Force Recon Marines ventured into the enemy's backyard to conduct reconnaissance and launched deliberate strikes against the enemy. Lanning and Stubbe blend analysis and you-are-there stories of Force Recon in action to create the definitive account of Recon Marines.

Originally published: New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.

If the costs of the Vietnam War were great to Americans and staggering to the South Vietnamese, they were even worse for the North. Based on interviews, soldiers' diaries, letters, and government documents, this book provides an account of the war that our opponents fought and the men who fought it.

Rangers, Green Berets, SEALs, Delta Force, LRRPs, Force Recon—and the struggle of the best and the bravest to keep America freeThey're some of the toughest and most highly trained fighting men in the world—going where no ordinary soldier would go and doing what no ordinary soldier would dare. Outnumbered and outgunned, operating in small teams of five or six-deep in enemy territory far from help, they rely on their wits, their skills, and each...