Night Work and also Long Range Patrol, both by Dennis Foley
Sniper Jackson by Frederick Sleath
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Night Work and also Long Range Patrol, both by Dennis Foley
Sniper Jackson by Frederick Sleath
It's thread-drift, but I vaugely recall someone telling me he backed the program as Corps commander because of Hackworth's snipers' success in Vietnam. My memory is shot -- I just re-read my post...
To my knowledge, the current major Army programs are:
US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center School (USAJFKSWCS) Special Operations Target Interdiction Course (SOTIC) Level 1
US Army...
RE IDF infantry, certainly they've shown their flexibility (paratroopers performing amphibious landings in the first war in Lebanon, etc.), but I thought that there was criticism that the mechanized...
SOF have used armor: if I'm not mistaken, the Australian SAS used the Wiesel with 20mm gun for fire support on patrol in Afghanistan -- one answer to the beyond .50 BMG range engagement issue on the...
It seems that the current US experience is that a DM is as valued for observation skills as riflery skills, as in the example of Lance Cpl Wilson:
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For those interested, in addition to the FM on the list, another volume on the list, Mao's Basic Tactics, is available on the web (...
A search didn't turn this up, so thought I'd put it out -- apparently one of CNNs "Heroes" finalists is SGM James McDowell:
http://www.operationspicydevil.org/
"Welcome to Operation Spicy...
An FYI for Army leaders:
I was just thinking today of the American Irish diaspora (being of that tribe) and how much of the support for the IRA has come from America... I have heard various exaggerations over the years, such...