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The official manual designed to provide guidance in special forces and unconventional warfare operations for commanders and staff at all levels. They can be swift, silent, and deadly. That's why armed guerrillas are feared by even the largest, best-equipped fighting forces. No tank, rocket-propelled grenade, or infantry battalion can match the guerrilla team's ability to exact brutality with precision, instil...

This is the illustrated official field manual used by US Army doctors and soldiers in the field. It offers professional, proven advice on dealing with infections, head injuries, fractures, burns, and more. For active-duty soldiers, first-responders, and anyone who might find themselves in a survival situation, it is a remarkable resource. Military surgeons must assume a leadership role in combat...

Military demolitions are the destruction by fire, water, explosive, and mechanical means of areas, structures, facilities, or materials to accomplish a military objective. The U.S. Army Explosives and Demolitions Handbook is a guide to the use of explosives in the destruction of military obstacles from the Department of the U.S. Army. This guide includes information on types, characteristics, and uses...

This official U.S. manual is the complete guide to using and dismantling boobytraps. Little is more dangerous to U.S. forces fighting insurgents in hot spots around the world than improvised explosive devices. It's the weapon of choice for under-funded forces aimed to attack American soldiers with low risk to themselves. Here you can learn how to assemble, use, detect, and...

Here in this critical guide are all the important foraging techniques that you'll need to know in order to survive in just about any situation. From selecting edible berries to trapping small game, The Complete U.S. Army Survival Guide to Foraging Skills, Tactics, and Techniques has got you covered. Within these pages, you'll find: The proper procedure to construct a...

The life of a counterintelligence (CI) operative has been immortalised in film and novels as being filled with glamour and excitement. While international travel, heroism, and danger are all part of the job description, the fundamentals of counterintelligence are discipline, skill, and—well—intelligence. CI operations include conducting investigations, offensive and defensive operations, security and vulnerability analyses, and intelligence collection in peace...

U.S. Army Intelligence and Interrogation Handbook provides doctrinal guidance, techniques, and procedures governing the use of interrogators as human intelligence collection agents in support of a commander's intelligence needs. It outlines the interrogator's role within the greater intelligence effort as well as the unit's day-to-day operations. The handbook includes details on how interrogators accomplish their assigned missions, ensuring effective and...

Here is the US Army manual for anyone interested in the Army's vision of leadership, covering ideas such as transactional leadership and cave thinking with literature. If it's useful to soldiers in battle, it's useful to you in business and in life. What does it take to win a battle? What does it take to lead an army into battle?...

The official manual from the United States, meant for novices and experienced soldiers. Describes ways to use tannerite, aluminium powder, thermite, fuse cords, fuse igniters, and more in unconventional warfare—and much more. U.S. Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare contains incredibly detailed information and visuals provided by the U.S. Army. With this guide, you will be able to easily...

Now outdoorsmen and survivalists can own the official US Army guide to edible plants. Whether you are a stranded soldier, a wilderness hiker, or you just want to know which plants growing in your backyard are edible, this is an invaluable resource. Anyone who has spent serious time outdoors knows that in survival situations, wild plants are often the only...

The official illustrated guide from the US Army on the best ways to fight and win when you are reduced to going toe to toe with an enemy: fundamentals, vulnerable points, holds, and escapes, and more. This manual was created to teach American soldiers hand-to-hand fighting techniques. It describes blows, holds, footwork, armwork, and other manoeuvres that can be used...