Training for the Jihad (merged thread)

[Cavguy]

The intel guys may know it, but I don't and I'd like to. Any chance we might see it available for us poor laymen?

Or is it safe to say Taliban "doctrine" is pretty close to Mujahideen tactics described in "The Other Side of the Mountain" or other similar works?

Matt

The joke here at the COIN Center is that more people outside the army have read FM 3-24 than inside...... and probably more of our enemies.

[Stan]

And if it wasn't already easy, you get this kind redirect during your search for the free download

FAS Note: This “final draft” of FM 3-24 on Counterinsurgency has
been superseded by the final version of the document dated 15
December 2006 and posted here: http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf

[Merv Benson]

Use the link on my post to get to the Telegraph story. There is a link to several pictures from the manual. I have not been able to copy the link directly but it reads "In pictures: Taliban 'how to' manual."

[Sarajevo071]

[Sarajevo071]

[Stan]

Hey Sarajevo !
Thanks for the pics !

This image looks as if it came directly out of a manual for the Army Corps of Engineers. .500 to 1.0 kg explosives placement, shape charges et al.

Nonetheless, fairly basic stuff found on the internet.

I'd be interested in the IED construction sections if any.

Regards, Stan

[Sarajevo071]

N/p Stan. You are welcome... About other stuff, I do not know much about engineering, mines or explosives so I will not be able to help you. Sorry. Once you guys get hand on the manual maybe you will be able to learn more.

bye

[Van]

AQ & affiliates have published many megs of .pdf manuals on the web. Much is translation of U.S. Mil documents (n.b. much of the survival and weapons stuff in Al-Battar). If this sample is representative, the media is making much ado again.

The two really scary ones were the Jihadi encyclopedias of poisons and explosives. I'd really like to hear if the processes in those manuals are good or would leave dead kitchen chemists lying around (but that could be an up side).

http://www.e-prism.org/articlesbyotherscholars.html
has many such pubs online, and some in translation.