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Summary:
Includes the making of Special Forces personnel--recruitment and training; a look at actual Special Forces Group deployment exercises; tools of the trade--weapons, communications and sensor equipment, and survival gear; roles and missions--a mini-novel illustrates probable scenarios of Special Forces intervention; an interview with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Special Forces Operations Command (USSOCOM) General Hugh Shelton.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-366).
Description based on print version record.
Contents:
- Special forces 101
- Road to the top: interview with General Henry H. Shelton
- Creating special forces soldiers
- Inside the rucksack: special forces stuff
- U.S. Army Special Forces Command
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- Getting ready: training for the "Big" one
- Downrange: special forces in the field
- Into the twenty-first century
- Operation Merdeka.
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