Greenhill Books/Stackpole Books.Greenhill Books/Stackpole Books 5067 Ritter rit·ter n. pl. ritter A knight. [German, from Middle High German riter, from Middle Dutch ridder, from r Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 www.stackpolebooks.com Two exceptional, very specific military titles are top picks for any studying special operations Operations conducted in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments to achieve military, diplomatic, informational, and/or economic objectives employing military capabilities for which there is no broad conventional force requirement. in particular. Leroy Thompson's Secret Techniques Of The Elite Forces (1853676527, $19.95) tells what training and missions the specialist handles in the course of becoming one of the world's fighting elite; from equipment he uses to tactics. This is no general overview, either: it covers such specifics as how combat swimmers launch from submarines to carry out beach reconnaissance before an invasion, how airborne and automobile forces operate in conjunction with other military units, and how the forces train for all types of terrain. Alexander Kouzminov's Biological Espionage espionage (ĕs`pēənäzh'), the act of obtaining information clandestinely. The term applies particularly to the act of collecting military, industrial, and political data about one nation for the benefit of another. : Special Operations Of The Soviet And Russian Foreign Intelligence Services In The West (1853676462, $19.95) provides an eye-opening coverage not just of modern biological threats as depicted de·pict tr.v. de·pict·ed, de·pict·ing, de·picts 1. To represent in a picture or sculpture. 2. To represent in words; describe. See Synonyms at represent. in the news, but of the history of Department 12 special operations, the elite core of the KGB KGB: see secret police. KGB Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (“Committee for State Security”) Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. charged with encouraging biological espionage and terrorism. This is no rumor title: one of the KGB's top operatives writes this expose, breaking silence for the first time to outline plans, tactics, and what others in the West and developing world are capable of achieving. |
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