Book · 1971 · Indochina
Devil's Guard
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Guys like Slinsky, his former boss, and other high-ranked SEALs had started passing around a book to each other. This was published in 1971 and it's titled The Devil's Guard. You ever heard of this book, Andrew?
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The Devil's Guard by George Robert Elford is a piece of postwar military fiction that depicts the experiences of former SS soldiers fighting in Indochina while purporting to be a factual account. Robert Evans discussed the novel on Behind the Bastards during a 2023 episode on G. Gordon Liddy and a 2026 episode about the Navy SEALs. Evans explained that high-ranking SEALs had passed the 1971 book around among themselves. In the context of Liddy, Evans noted that the novel served as the source for Liddy's ahistorical ideas about the Waffen SS and counterinsurgency in Vietnam. Evans strongly critiqued the work, emphasizing that it is one of the most fascist books of military fiction in existence. He pointed out that despite its fictional nature, its false claims of being a true story have unfortunately spread myths regarding the supposed brilliance of the SS as a counterinsurgency force for generations among modern soldiers.
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Robert Evans Guys like Slinsky, his former boss, and other high-ranked SEALs had started passing around a book to each o… 3
“Guys like Slinsky, his former boss, and other high-ranked SEALs had started passing around a book to each other. This was published in 1971 and it's titled The Devil's Guard. You ever heard of this book, Andrew?”
“and it's from a fiction book called The Devil's guard now I actually have not seen this written anywhere else I think I may be like the first person to note this publicly but it's extremely obvious if you are familiar with the book The Devil's guard and I'll go into why I am in a little bit but the”
“it's one of the most fascist books of military fiction in existence and again I have to I have to I have to really emphasize Fiction it's claims to that it was real have spread myths about the incredible Brilliance of the SS as a counterinsurgency force for Generations in 2006”
