Matthew is a friend and colleague who I have spent many evenings discussing SEAL Team Six with， and I can say that he likely knows as much about the subject as anyone not actual in the SEALs。 This book is the distillation of several years of his work and reporting， putting it into a broader historical context of the evolution of the unit。 It draws from much of his writing at The Intercept and offers a necessary， if shocking to some， overview of what members of this unit have been doing during th Matthew is a friend and colleague who I have spent many evenings discussing SEAL Team Six with， and I can say that he likely knows as much about the subject as anyone not actual in the SEALs。 This book is the distillation of several years of his work and reporting， putting it into a broader historical context of the evolution of the unit。 It draws from much of his writing at The Intercept and offers a necessary， if shocking to some， overview of what members of this unit have been doing during the War on Terror years。 。。。more