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Although I admit I came to this book (a book club choice) without enthusiasm, the book simply isn't very good, neither well-written nor particularly interesting or informative. If you're interested in the specifics of SEAL training, then you might want to read it. But for insight into anything more than the specifics of the killing of Bin Laden, you'll have to look elsewhere. And since I'm concurrently reading Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest, the juxtaposition couldn't be more radical, both in writing ability and in conclusions: "Owen" complains repeatedly about the politicians in Washington interfering with the much more knowledgeable military folks on the ground as to a "war plan," while Halberstam makes clear the enormous dangers and fallacy of relying on the military folks on the ground, or in command centers, to see the bigger picture or to take into account the international political consequences of military decisions.