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The US Army Guerrilla Warfare Handbook is an essential military manual that provides a comprehensive overview of unconventional warfare tactics used by guerrilla fighters. Based on official U.S. Army field manuals, this book explores the principles of irregular warfare, including ambushes, raids, sabotage, intelligence gathering, and psychological operations.

Many aspire to serve with the Special Air Service, arguably the world's most prestigious regiment, but few achieve their aim. In this inspiring memoir veteran Tony Shaw recounts how he left school without any qualifications and embarked on a 30 year career much of it spent in Hereford, including four years in 'The Regiment'. Against the odds he rose through the ranks before being commissioned and eventually retiring as a Major. A brilliant and important account of one man's unique career which provides a fascinating insight into elite special forces soldiering.

In January 1951, Lieutenant Evgeniy Borisov was sent to the headquarters of the Soviet 5th Army in Spassk-Dalnii, a small city in the Russian Far East. Borisov was there on a secret mission. Together with his superior, Major Rusinov, his job was to establish the 91st Special Forces Company. The 91st was to be one of forty-six similar units spread out across the Soviet Union. The new forces were called "spetsnaz"—short for spetsnialnoe naznachenie, which translates to "special purpose."

Through a series of dramatic combat tales this book charts the story of the U.S. Navy SEALs from World War Two to present day. In this awe-inspiring account. Follow the amazing evolution from World War 2, when Naval Combat Demolition Units, Underwater Demolition Teams and Scouts and Raiders helped change the course of the war. All of these units undertook some daring missions during World War 2 and proved instrumental in the D-day and the landings at Okinawa before final victory in the Pacific. In the Korean War the UDT cleared mines and scouted landing sites ahead of the main American ...

When the cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar escaped his lavish, custom built prison in Colombia, the fallout drove the nation to the brink of chaos. In Killing Pablo, acclaimed journalist Mark Bowden tells the story of the US military’s fifteen-month mission to find him. Drawing on unprecedented access to the soldiers, field agents, and officials involved in the chase, as well as hundreds of pages of top-secret documents and transcripts of Escobar’s intercepted phone conversations, Bowden creates a narrative that reads as if it were torn from the pages of a Tom Clancy thriller.

Afghan Heat is a fast paced story of an SAS operative on operations from SAS selection through to a tour on the battlefields of Afghanistan. The book follows individual operations where special forces, aircraft, and the latest surveillance technology are fused together - in order to capture key figures or simply take out an enemy stronghold. The books account is both gritty and graphical as it follows the SAS, battling at times against overwhelming odds in a hostile country. Fighting a war hardened enemy with years of experience fighting occupying forces. Even these elite soldiers with ...

Special Forces have played an extremely important role in the War in Afghanistan and none more so than the U.S. Navy SEALs. From the onset of the war in Afghanistan they have participated in many varied operations. Operation Anaconda being one such example of a deadly operation which saw SEALs fighting for their lives. Afghan Warrior takes you through some hard-fought encounters from the densely-packed warren of walled compounds that doubled neatly as enemy bunkers, lush orchards to high up in the rugged mountainous border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Fighting an enemy with years ...

Narrated for the listener who craves the untold truth behind black ops, elite training, and modern psychological warfare. They don’t wear medals. They don’t have names. They don’t officially exist. Forged in Fire is the raw, unfiltered truth of what it takes to become one of the world’s most elite and secretive operatives—a shadow warrior forged not in glory, but in chaos, silence, and suffering. Go beyond the surface-level stories of Navy SEALs, Delta Force, and CIA black ops.

ISIS has become synonymous with brutal killings, slavery and the barbaric use of women as sex slaves. Islamic State or ISIS adhere to a doctrine of war without any limits or constraints. They do not believe in arbitration or compromise when it comes to settling disputes. As part of Task Force Black the SAS, SBS, Delta Force and SEAL team six have taken on a dangerous adversary. Making use of the latest technology such as drones and quad bikes, blended with Special Forces traditional skills to continue the fight against extremism and rescue a beleaguered local populace. ISIS Dawn gives the ...

The SAS was born under the leadership of David Stirling in the Libyan desert in July 1941 often called the ‘Originals.’ Other legends such as Jock Lewes and Paddy Mayne were pivotal in the early success of the SAS rouge heroes. The very first SAS raid ended without a single hit on the enemy, along with 34 men dead, injured or missing; only 21 returned to base. Using their motto ‘Who Dares Wins’ the SAS continued to dare with big losses and small gains. In North Africa, the SAS became a nuisance to the enemy. Many aircraft were shot up and airfields temporarily put out of action. In ...

In this gripping and unnervingly real exposé, former intelligence analyst and military historian Jack Donovan Reid takes listeners deep into the dark heart of America's most secretive missions. These are the shadow wars—off-the-books assassinations, drone strikes, and black ops campaigns sanctioned at the highest levels of government, then erased from history.

How does it feel to walk through a human corridor of 1400 Korean guerrilla soldiers, who present arms and shout "T'ujaeng!" as you walk the mile to the port on your last day of tour in the Korean Conflict? To the hero of this book, Peter Smith, it felt like he achieved his first major goal in life - To "command a unit in Uncle Sam's Army." Faithful Devotion is about Peter's life struggle to keep America free from Communist. His 26 year military career, takes the reader to Port Said, Egypt, where Peter is under cover as vice consul. To Bangkok, Thailand, as an undercover spy, to Vietnam as a...

ISIS Dusk follows the SAS's final push along with other Special Forces to remove ISIS from Iraq. Working with Iraqi and Kurdish forces as well as other special forces teams such as Delta Force. The SAS has been involved in a fierce and bitter battle against a tenacious enemy who have used tactics and doctrine not too dissimilar to the Taliban and al- Qaeda. Taking it to a new level of terror and oppression, planning a plethora of horrific attacks on the western world some of which have been successful. Some of the SAS operations have been performed at the last minute in an attempt to rescue...