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Created by a world leader in modern Special Forces with access to some of the most secretive elite units, this book provides a fascinating overview of Special Forces units around the world, including the SAS and Delta Force.
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Over the last 30 years, the `technical' or armed pick-up truck has become arguably the most ubiquitous military land vehicle of modern warfare. Harking back to the armed Jeeps and Chevrolet trucks of the SAS and Long Range Desert Group in North Africa in the World War II, the wor...ld's first insurgent technicals were those of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army in Algeria in the late 1970s, followed by the Chadian use of technical in the so-called Toyota War against Libya. Since then, technicals have seen use in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, as well as being used by Western and Russian Special Forces. Fully illustrated with commissioned artwork and providing rigorous analysis, this is the first history of how this deceptively simple fighting vehicle has been used and developed in conflicts worldwide.
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A story of equipment failures, bad luck, poor planning, and unbelievable courage written 25 years after the battle that inspired Black Hawk Down, this new book by Leigh Neville reveals the hard-hitting truth of what happened minute-by-minute in the dusty streets of Mogadishu.
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A comprehensive illustrated study of the growth and operations of specialist military and police counter-terrorist units across Europe over the past 45 years.
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Detailed pictorial record of international elite forces.
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The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have seen the rise of the sniper in modern warfare. Based on firsthand accounts, this book reveals the true story behind this battlefield specialty.
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Reveals the grueling Green Beret training and preparation, the specialized equipment they used in the field and traces their deployment throughout the campaign, from the first insertion of forces through to the fall of Kabul and Kandahar, the Taliban uprising at the notorious For...t of War in Mazar-e-Sharif, and more.
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Within weeks of 9/11, United States Special Operations Forces were dropping into Afghanistan to lead the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The author gives a blow-by-blow description of major Special Forces operations, culminating in SEAL Team 6's Operation Neptune Spear and ...the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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On March 4, 2002, a team of SEALs was choppered onto a hostile Afghan mountain peak as part of Operation Anaconda. The largest operation by US forces since Vietnam, it was intended to bring to battle foreign al-Qaeda fighters who had fled after the overthrow of the Taliban and th...e battle of Tora Bora.
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An illustrated study of the radical evolution of the Australian Army's capabilities, and its combat operations, that has taken place since the end of the Vietnam War.
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