SEALs

The US Navy’s Elite Fighting Force

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SEALs

The US Navy’s Elite Fighting Force

Description

Since their creation in 1983, the US Navy SEALs have been involved in unconventional warfare around the globe, undertaking crucial and clandestine missions.

These have included traditional underwater missions such as in Panama in 1989, the taking down of ships and also gas and oil platforms, and more recently, sniping and other missions in land-locked countries like Afghanistan.

They have adapted their training, their tactics and their weapons to enable them to remain the best in whatever task they are set. This book covers the organization of the SEALs, their famously demanding recruitment, their equipment, and their missions.

The authors have interviewed many past and serving SEALs, who tell their stories in their own words.

Table of Contents

Authors' Prefaces
Forewords

Part I COMMAND STRUCTURE AND TRAINING
The US SEALs and Naval Special Warfare Command
Training

Part II SMALL WARS 1989–2003
The Invasion of Panama 1989
Counter-Drug Operations in Bolivia 1991
Yugoslavia 1999 and Bosnia 2003

Part III GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM: AFGHANISTAN 2001–07
Afghanistan
Camp Rhino
Task Force K-Bar Missions
Operation Redwing

Part IV GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM: IRAQ 2003–07
Viet-raq
Baghdad
Fallujah
Mosul and Tall Afar
Ramadi

Appendices
Endnotes
Index

Product details

Published 20 Sep 2011
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 256
ISBN 9781780960784
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 150 col
Series General Military
Short code GNM
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Mir Bahmanyar

Mir Bahmanyar served in the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ra…

Author

Chris Osman

Chris Osman is a former US Marine and US Navy SEAL…

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