I have spent some time now reading through some of the very interesting threads in this forum, in particular under the "trigger puller" section. I have wanted to respond to some but the threads seem so well established, involved and responded to it almost seemed superfluous. The knowledge of some of you is very impressive. I just read through the suppressive fire thread, good stuff
This book, "Rapid Fire", is above all a professional soldiers take on tactics and combat. It does also include protection operations and movement/contact drills in vehicles and the tactics that apply to that. It also includes some good honest professional infantry soldiering and a both cerebral and practical look at the topic. It can be used as a manual. Things like psychological effects in attack, suppressive fire and the like are covered. I don't like all that I see around me in the military nowadays and the idea behind the book was for it to be a resource to pass on my accumulated knowledge and "the good stuff' in terms of how to conduct operations at primarily the squad and platoon level. It is not specifically a military manual, it could be used effectively as such, but it also applies to anyone conducting paramilitary or close protection contractor type operations.
My background and training had a starting point as a professional soldier, as both enlisted and then commissioned, in the British Parachute Regiment. The way to professionally conduct light infantry and vehicle mounted operations is laid out in the book.
It is not the Ranger Handbook. Why but another book on tactics when you already know all about them? If you wish to learn about small unit tactics and operations, and even if you are already trained as an infantry soldier, you will learn something from it.
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