The Immaculate Invasion Author:Bob Shacochis For eighteen months, Bob Shacochis covered "Operation Uphold Democracy" in Haiti, where he bunked with a team of Special Forces Commandos--the most highly trained and sophisticated warriors in history. There, he observed both the heroic exploits and the unrelenting frustrations of men struggling to be soldiers in a military environment in which ... more »"acceptable losses" has evolved to mean "no losses whatsoever." From the Pentagon's war room to the dangerously divided U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince and the inner circles of both Haiti's military junta and the terrorist group FRAPH, Shacochis chronicles what the military calls OTW--Operations Other Than War. The result is a revelatory view of modern-day warfare, an assessment of our obligations as the world's peacekeeper, and a song of freedom dedicated to not just the Haitian people, but to any culture staggering through the aftershock of twentieth-century imperialism.
"A bitter, funny, engrossing adventure between the mysteries and comedy of the American military machine and the infinite suffering of Haiti."-- Herbert Gold, San Francisco Chronicle
"Every war brings forth one perfect book. . . . Now we have The Immaculate Invasion, the masterpiece of the 1994 U.S. assault on and occupation of Haiti." --James Zug, Chicago Tribune« less