The 21st Century Mercenary Operations Manual Vol 1

Author : Chris Ronson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1703121406

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The 21st Century Mercenary Operations Manual - Vol. 1 by Chris Ronson Pdf

Being a profession as old as mankind itself, the mere word "mercenary" often triggers images of danger, toughness, adventure, deadly skills, sex and money in a life as exotic and unreal as some classic action movie. Often said to no longer exist, rendered obsolete by the multi-million dollar private military companies that reshaped private warfare since 2001, mercenaries in the classic way continued their existence and work without any real changes, except for a rise in both overall demand and sorts of opportunities to work since the 80s and 90s, when their existence was proved on photos in the famous publications like "Soldier of Fortune", "Gung Ho" and some of the best of the trade took the time and effort to even write manuals on how to get into that dangerous, demanding and often outright crazy occupation. Seasoned and experienced mercs like Paul Balor in his "Manual of the Mercenary soldier" or Frank J. Camper, running his "Mercenary School" and publishing several books including the original "Mercenary Operations Manual" in 1986 and "Live to spend it" opened that hidden world, together with an opportunity to become a part of it, to anybody dedicated enough to pay the price in sweat, blood, hunger and sleep deprivation. Yet, the changes of our world and its wars together with all the naysayers in the big www claiming the old-school mercenary type to be long vanished, made an update necessary. Here it is.No matter if you're eager to start a full-time career as a hired gun, want more information about this trade to decide if it's for you or you're only curious, you'll get your answers.Or, maybe, you simply want to acquire the skills and know-how of a professional mercenary to improve your chances of protecting those you care about in a world of wars lacking frontlines; wars that don't end on borders in lands far away but instead are fought by enemy forces that might carry out their next attack in a church, a shopping mall or cinema in your hometown!This books goal is to make sure that you are prepared for participating in any modern war as an independent, single operator - increasing to the maximum your chances to "live to spend it".

Author : Franklin J. Camper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0879472413

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Mercenary Operations Manual by Franklin J. Camper Pdf

Author : Harry McCallion
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399050135

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A History of Modern Mercenary Warfare by Harry McCallion Pdf

Since before the time of Alexander the Great trained soldiers have sold their expertise on battlefield around the World, fighting and dying in other people’s wars for money, glory or the lust for violence and combat. In this book Harry McCallion explores the development of modern mercenary forces from the British SAS led deniable operation in Yemen in late 1960’s, during which the Israelis were persuaded to arm the SAS led Yemeni tribesmen, through the bush wars in Africa, Britain’s ill fated intervention in the war in Afghanistan right up to today’s War in Ukraine. Many of the modern day British mercenaries were known to the author personally. including such notably figures as the legendary SAS Fijian warriors ‘Tak ‘ Takevesia who, although in his early sixties shot his way out of an ambush in Bagdad and Fred ‘Big Fred’ Mrafano who devoted himself to the cause of the people of Serra Leone. SAS veteran .Bill Scully who received the Queen's Gallantry Medal single-handedly protected 1,300 civilians from rebel troops during the uprising in May 199 7after the Sierra Leone coup and American Vietnam veteran Major ‘Mac’ Mackenzie, who although badly wounded in Vietnam, rose from trooper to command a Rhodesian SAS squadron and was one of the units most highly decorated soldiers. Also included are more notorious figures like Costas Georgiou also known by his alias Colonel Callan who served in the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment but was dishonorably discharged and sentenced to five years in prison for a post office robbery, later he proclaimed himself a ‘Colonel’ and led a group of psychopathic mercenaries in the Angolan War of Independence, before being captured and executed by Angolan forces. The book explores the roles of modern day mercenaries, who’s use has expanded precisely because they are mercenaries, fighting for money and not love of country, their deaths are not seen as a patriotic sacrifice, often they go unreported and in turn helps to conceal the true tragic human cost of waging a war. As one former private military contractor recently stated to Australian TV “If you want to conquer in the 21st century you use mercenaries, special forces, things to keep war secret and nobody’s better at secret wars than mercenaries.”

Author : Caroline Varin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317674788

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Mercenaries, Hybrid Armies and National Security by Caroline Varin Pdf

This book assesses the use of ‘mercenaries’ by states, and their integration into the national armed forces as part of a new hybridisation trend of contemporary armies. Governments, especially in the West, are undertaking an unprecedented wave of demilitarisation and military budget cuts. Simultaneously, these same governments are increasingly opening their armies up to foreign nationals and outsourcing military operations to private companies. This book explores the impact of this hybridisation on the values, cohesion and effectiveness of the armed forces by comparing and contrasting the experiences of the French Foreign Legion, private military companies in Angola, and the merging of private contractors and American troops in Iraq. Examining the employment of foreign citizens and private security companies as military forces and tools of foreign policy, and their subsequent impact on the national armed forces, the book investigates whether the difficulties of coordinating soldiers of various nationalities and allegiances within public-private joint military operations undermines the legitimacy of the state. Furthermore, the author questions whether this trend for outsourcing security can realistically provide a long term and positive contribution to national security. This book will be of much interest to students of private military companies, strategic studies, international security and IR in general.

Author : Paul Balor
Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000061608658

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Manual of the Mercenary Soldier by Paul Balor Pdf

Author : Mir Bahmanyar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Mercenary troops
ISBN : 1846034760

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Mercenary by Mir Bahmanyar Pdf

The mercenary has been one of the constants of military history since ancient times. From Xenophon's Anabasis to today's soldiers of fortune in Africa and the Middle East these warriors for hire have wrought havoc throughout history. This book looks at the evolution of the mercenary from ancient times to the present day. All aspects of the life of the soldier of fortune are detailed from the definition and legalities of the mercenary to their impact on the way wars are waged. Included are high profile cases such as the Truceless War between Carthage and her mercenaries, the great mercenary captain Hawkwood, and the death and mutilation of four mercenaries in Iraq. The book also details the different attitudes towards mercenaries, their equipment and their tactics, training or lack thereof and the deficiencies affecting the mercenaries in their ability to execute their missions. Including quotes and first-hand accounts from mercenaries from all ages, this volume casts new light onto the dark world of the mercenary, captures the transformation of the mercenary has gone through and examines the future of mercenaries in the 21st century.

Author : Thomas Rid,Thomas Keaney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136976056

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Understanding Counterinsurgency Warfare by Thomas Rid,Thomas Keaney Pdf

This textbook offers an accessible introduction to counterinsurgency operations, a key aspect of modern warfare. Featuring essays by some of the world’s leading experts on unconventional conflict, both scholars and practitioners, the book discusses how modern regular armed forces react, and should react, to irregular warfare. The volume is divided into three main sections: Doctrinal Origins: analysing the intellectual and historical roots of modern Western theory and practice Operational Aspects: examining the specific role of various military services in counterinsurgency, but also special forces, intelligence, and local security forces Challenges: looking at wider issues, such as governance, culture, ethics, civil-military cooperation, information operations, and time. Understanding Counterinsurgency is the first comprehensive textbook on counterinsurgency, and will be essential reading for all students of small wars, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism, strategic studies and security studies, both in graduate and undergraduate courses as well as in professional military schools.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Paperbacks
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211446385

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Paperbound Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lawrence E. Cline,Paul Shemella
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781440833007

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The Future of Counterinsurgency by Lawrence E. Cline,Paul Shemella Pdf

This thought-provoking work analyzes the major debates surrounding counterinsurgency campaigns and uncovers the internal security problems derailing effective strategies for restoring stability. As countries across the globe continue to adjust their security operations to counter an increasingly volatile political landscape, the issue of how to identify and derail a host of violent groups remains of considerable interest. This comprehensive volume offers an examination of the effectiveness of contemporary counterinsurgency efforts, revealing which approaches offer the greatest chances of success internally, regionally, and internationally. Featuring perspectives from experts and analysts in the field of irregular warfare and international security, this is an unparalleled exploration of all types of insurgency from warlordism, to piracy, to guerilla movements. The book looks beyond the popular focus on Iraq and Afghanistan, delving into the internal security operations of regions not normally studied. Chapters cover goal setting and measurements for restoring security, information operations and strategic communications between insurgent groups and governments, and the different approaches of governments in combating political unrest. Case studies include movements in Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Egypt, and South Africa.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132702320

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Soldier of Fortune by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3310 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015054057792

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Subject Guide to Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alain De Botton
Publisher : Signal
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780771027697

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The News by Alain De Botton Pdf

From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a thought-provoking look at the manic and peculiar position that news has achieved in our lives. What does the news do to our brains, our souls and our views of one another? We spend an inordinate amount of time checking on it. It molds how we view reality, we're increasingly addicted to it on our luminous gadgets, we check it every morning when we wake up and every evening before we sleep-and yet the news has rarely been the focus of an accessible, serious, saleable book-length study. Until now. Mixing snippets of current news with philosophical reflections, The News will blend the timeless with the contemporary, and bring the wisdom of thousands of years of culture to bear on our contemporary obsessions and neuroses. The News ranges across news categories-from politics to murders, from economics to celebrities, from the weather to paparazzi shows--in search of answers to the questions: "What do we want from this?" and "Is it doing us any good?" After The News, we'll never look at a celebrity story, the report on a tropical storm, or the sex scandal of a politician in quite the same way again.

Author : Army Center of Military History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1944961402

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American Military History Volume 1 by Army Center of Military History Pdf

American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.

Author : Florence Hartley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009635152

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Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politéness by Florence Hartley Pdf

Do unto others as you would others should do to you. You can never be rude if you bear the rule always in mind, for what lady likes to be treated rudely? True Christian politeness will always be the result of an unselfish regard for the feelings of others, and though you may err in the ceremonious points of etiquette, you will never be im polite. Politeness, founded upon such a rule, becomes the expression, in graceful manner, of social virtues. The spirit of politeness consists in a certain attention to forms and ceremonies, which are meant both to please others and ourselves, and to make others pleased with us ;a still clearer definition may be given by saying that politeness is goodness of heart put into daily practice; the.re can be no true, politeness without kindness, purity, singleness of heart, and sensibility. Many believe that politeness is but a mask worn in the world to conceal bad passions and impulses, and to make a show of possessing virtues not really existing in the heart; thus, that politeness is merely hypocrisy and dissimulation. Do not believe this; be certain that those who profess such a doctrine are practising themselves the deceit they condemn so much.

Author : Montgomery McFate
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190934941

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Military Anthropology by Montgomery McFate Pdf

In almost every military intervention in its history, the US has made cultural mistakes that hindered attainment of its policy goals. From the strategic bombing of Vietnam to the accidental burning of the Koran in Afghanistan, it has blundered around with little consideration of local cultural beliefs and for the long-term effects on the host nation's society. Cultural anthropology--the so-called "handmaiden of colonialism"--has historically served as an intellectual bridge between Western powers and local nationals. What light can it shed on the intersection of the US military and foreign societies today? This book tells the story of anthropologists who worked directly for the military, such as Ursula Graham Bower, the only woman to hold a British combat command during WWII. Each faced challenges including the negative outcomes of exporting Western political models and errors of perception. Ranging from the British colonial era in Africa to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Military Anthropology illustrates the conceptual, cultural and practical barriers encountered by military organisations operating in societies vastly different from their own.