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U.S. Special Warfare: The Elite Combat Skills of America's Modern Armed Forces

U.S. Special Warfare: The Elite Combat Skills of America's Modern Armed Forces

Southworth, Samuel a.

Paperback

Armed ForcesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0306813572
ISBN13: 9780306813573
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: Sep 8 2004
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.12 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
For many centuries, the job of everyday soldiers, the grunts, was the same-see the hill, take the hill. But the combat role of today's U.S. soldier has undergone a radical change. The recent revolution in the art of soldiering in America emphasizes a smaller, but more highly specialized and technologically equipped, armed force. Now, even everyday soldiers in America's armed forces specialize in elite combat skills that use the very latest high-tech equipment.After basic training, many of today's recruits continue advanced training in one of the new emerging combat specialties, such as urban, mountain and arctic warfare; amphibious, underwater and small boat operations; modern cavalry combat; sniping; military intelligence and psychological warfare; search and rescue procedures, and combat engineering.In lively and entertaining prose, military historian Sam Southworth describes these emerging combat specialties-as well as the training and equipment for each-that characterize America's fighting force today.

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