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NORTH KOREAN TACTICS [PDF] by MAJ James M. Minnich,
Northeast Asia Foreign Area Officer. In 1985, the ROK Military, with the
assistance of a North Korean defector and thirty procured nK related
reference materials, began a revision of it's perceived understanding of nK
military tactics. In 1997, with the procural of many important nK reference
materials, the ROK Military refined it's interpretation of nK tactics, and
with the publication of 30-7 Reference Manual series, dated 2000.1.31,
Understanding the Enemy, the ROKA College has revised its teachings on nK
tactics. This research paper is predominately based on Reference Manual
30-7-1, Understanding the Enemy (volume 1) - North Korean Military Tactical
Doctrine, Regiment Level and Higher.
Doctrine for Asymmetric Warfare ~
Excerpt from: "MILITARY REVIEW Magazine" By Col. Clinton J. Ancker III, U.S.
Army, Retired & Lt. Col. Michael D. Burke, U.S. Army, Retired July - August 2003
The Simple Sabotage Field Manual —
Strategic Services (Provisional) — is published for the information and guidance
of all concerned and will be used as the basic doctrine for Strategic Services
training for this subject. Sabotage varies from highly technical coup de main
acts that require detailed planning and the use of specially-trained operatives,
to innumerable simple acts which the ordinary individual citizen-saboteur can
perform. This paper is primarily concerned with the latter type. Simple sabotage
does not require specially prepared tools or equipment; it is executed by an
ordinary citizen who may or may not act individually and without the necessity
for active connection with an organized group; and it is carried out in such a
way as to involve a minimum danger of injury, detection, and reprisal.
Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla
~ A Marxist Revolutionary Guide By Carlos Marighella 1969, Brazil
ASYMMETRIC WARFARE - OLD METHOD, NEW
CONCERN ~ National Strategy Forum Review By David L. Grange Winter 2000
Vikings Raid European Mainland:
800-900
Essay examines the Norsemen's
military tactics, and analyzes the effect of the incursions on Britain,
France, and Spain.
The Battle of Granicus, 334 B.C.
Details the military tactics and strategies used by Alexander the Great
against the Persians at the Granicus River battle. Pretty badly written,
grammatically speaking.
Military Operations and Plans for German Domination of Europe
Examines the public reaction to World War I, along with Germany's military
tactics and plans for becoming the dominant force in Europe.
Battle of Pinkie Cleugh Historians have tended to regard the British
Isles as a military backwater in the 16th century, but a close examination
of the campaign suggests that Pinkie Cleugh was the first "modern" battle on
British soil--featuring combined arms, cooperation between infantry,
artillery and cavalry and, most remarkably, a naval bombardment in support
of land forces. Such an interpretation places Britain in the mainstream of
military development 100 years earlier than is generally accepted.
The Police Officer’s Internet Directory.
Link Mine of information regarding Law Enforcement and LE topics. None
better or more intensive and diverse. Truly astounding.
Janes Strategic Intelligence & Information Site.
Good intel is a foundation of survival. Jane’s is the publisher of the world
famous reviews of military equipment & geopolitical status reports.
Recognized authority in the intel field.
Camouflage: Use & Detection.
Excellent text on both cover & concealment See also:
Kodak Infrared Film spots the "make believe" of enemy camouflage.
"FM 20-3: Camouflage"
This field manual (FM) is intended to help company-level
leaders understand the principles and techniques of camouflage, concealment,
and decoys (CCD). To remain viable, all units must apply CCD to personnel
and equipment. Ignoring a threat's ability to detect friendly operations on
the battlefield is shortsighted and dangerous. Friendly units enhance their
survivability capabilities if they are well versed in CCD principles and
techniques...
"FM 21-75 : Combat Skills of the Soldier"
includes : Cover, concealment & camouflage, Fighting Positions,
Movement, Observation, NBC Warfare, Intel & counter intel, Communications, 1st
Aid & personal Hygiene, Mines & Demolitions, Obstacles, Urban areas,
Tracking, SERE (survival, resistance, evasion, escape), weapons & fire
control, field expedient anti-armor devices, range cards.
On PDF
CIA's Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual.
Some parts edited. Still interesting. See also:
CIA MANUAL and
Prisoner Abuse: Patterns from the Past
FM 90-10: Military Operations in
Urbanized Terrain (MOUT)
Tactical doctrine stresses that urban combat operations are
conducted only when required and that built-up areas are isolated and
bypassed rather than risking a costly, time-consuming operation in this
difficult environment. Adherence to these precepts, though valid, is
becoming increasingly difficult as urban sprawl changes the face of the
battlefield. The acronym MOUT (Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain)
classifies those military actions planned and conducted on a terrain complex
where manmade construction impacts on the tactical options available to
commanders...
Range Estimation
Essential info for hunters & shooters.
Small Arms Air Defense : Light Infantry in Action Part II
When facing an enemy that has air superiority or air parity, air attacks are
not just a probability--they are a certainty. The following battlefield
experiences relate some success by ground units engaging enemy aircraft with
small arms.
GUERRILLA WARFARE by D.M. Gould: Up until World War II, guerrilla
warfare was largely ignored in military textbooks. Today, its implications
cannot be ignored. Many countries, (e.g., Britain) even have specific
brigades set up to combat guerrilla warriors...
Urban Warfare Considerations; Understanding
and Combating Irregular and Guerilla Forces During A "Conventional War" In
Iraq. by C. L. Staten, Sr.
National Security Analyst, Emergency Response & Research Institute:
According to reports from U.S. military/intelligence sources, Iraqi special
troops (Fedayeen) are now said to utilizing guerilla warfare tactics that
have been developed by Al-Qaeda and other radical Muslim militants in a
number of countries. In particular, the idea of "stay-behind" irregular
troops, dressed in civilian clothes and using unconventional and illegal
tactics to attack U.S. and Coalition forces, reportedly comes from evolving
Al-Qaeda and other terrorist doctrine.
Che Guevara Guerilla Warfare
The armed victory of the Cuban people over the Batista dictatorship was not
only the triumph of heroism as reported by the newspapers of the world; it
also forced a change in the old dogmas concerning the conduct of the popular
masses of Latin America. It showed plainly the capacity of the people to
free themselves by means of guerrilla warfare from a government that
oppresses them...
[Homestead] Guerrilla Warfare, a too-small
army Is it possible to prevail
over the Iraqi insurgency? First, says John Pike of the group
GlobalSecurity.org, enemy combatants must be killed, captured, or
demoralized faster than new ones can be recruited, and the majority of the
population must come to see the insurgency as illegitimate and its defeat as
inevitable. It's a tough job, one that's likely to take years - as long as
10 years, says Dr. Metz at the Army War College. And the outcome is by no
means assured...
E-Notes- Recapturing the Essentials of
Counterinsurgency - FPRI In
recent years, a lamentable tendency has arisen, among persons who should
know better, to use the terms “terrorist” and “guerrilla” as if they were
synonyms. This is a serious confusion that may well lead to policy errors
and thus cost American lives. In this essay, the term “guerrillas” refers to
those who, whatever else they may do, fight against ostensibly more powerful
armed forces by making unexpected attacks against vulnerable military
targets, and who are sustained, in the ideal case, by popular support, high
morale, good intelligence, secure bases, and foreign assistance...
BELLUM - TE LAWRENCE - SCIENCE OF GUERILLA
WARFARE by T.E. Lawrence: This
study of the science of guerrilla, or irregular, warfare is based on the
concrete experience of the Arab Revolt against the Turks 1916-1918. But the
historical example in turn gains value from the fact that its course was
guided by the practical application of the theories here set forth...
Excerpts from memorandum from Brig. Gen.
Edward G. Lansdale ... Pentagon
expert on guerrilla warfare, to Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, President Kennedy's
military adviser, on "Resources for Unconventional Warfare, SE. Asia,"
undated but apparently from July, 1961. Copies were sent to Secretary of
Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell L. Gilpatric,
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Allen W. Dulles, Director of Central
Intelligence, and Gen. C. P. Cabell, Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence...
Urban Guerrilla Warfare in Latin America As the United States
battled revolutionary communist guerrillas in Vietnam on the center stage in
the world news in the 1960's, other revolutionary forces worked fervently to
destabilize oppressive Latin American authoritarian regimes. As guerilla
activity spread across Central America from Guatemala (1954), to Cuba (1959
& 1961), and the Dominican Republic (1965), South American revolutionary
leaders, such as Che Guevara and Carlos Marighella, as well as the guerrilla
organization of the Tupamaros, watched intently learning much from the
failures and success of their revolutionary brothers to the north...
Guerrilla Warfare
- excerpt of chapter one of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's General Principles of
Guerrilla Warfare.
Instruments of Statecraft: U.S. Guerilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and
Counterterrorism, 1940-1990 Informed by recently declassified and
previously unpublished documents, Instruments of Statecraft is an
authoritative study of American covert, unconventional warfare waged against
ideological adversaries, from the Truman administration up to the recent war
in the Persian Gulf.
Since World War II, assassination, sabotage, kidnaping, torture, the
overthrow of foreign governments, and other terroristic activities have been
intrinsic to our national defense policy. These have been justified time and
again as necessary to combat communist insurgency and, more recently,
terrorism-as the only effective response to the barbarism ascribed to, or
projected onto, our enemies- be they Sandinistas or the PLO. So it is that
America has maintained forces -including the OSS, the CIA, the Green Berets,
and the Delta Force-that have specialized in dirty warfare with impunity, in
Nicaragua, Lebanon, Laos, Vietnam, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Guatemala,
Africa, Cuba, Central America, and Greece, among other places. Michael
McClintock gives a fascinating and alarming expose of the dark side of
American foreign policy, while examining its tactical roots-from the
pronouncements of Clausewitz and Raymond Aron, to its ideological basis in
the Monroe Doctrine, Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" foreign policy, and
Woodrow Wilson's post-colonialist crusade.
On Guerrilla Warfare
Written by Mao in 1937, when Japanese imperialists occupied all of China,
this book served as an instruction manual for guerrilla fighting, written
based on more than a decade of personal experience by Mao. Based on the
basic strategy and tactics of warfare as described by Sun-tzu, Mao stresses
the importance of guerrilla warfare tactics in a revolutionary war,
emphasizing that they must be combined in conjunction with conventional
warfare tactics.
Understanding Guerrilla Warfare by Major Johnie Gombo, USMC. Unless
a Marine Air Ground Task Force Commander understands guerrilla warfare,
conflict with a belligerent who uses guerrilla warfare will cause a
problem...
GUERRILLA WARFARE TACTICS IN URBAN
ENVIRONMENTS A thesis presented ...
[PDF]
GUERRILLA WARFARE: WHEN TAKING CARE OF YOUR MEN LEADS TO WAR CRIMES
by Davida Kellogg: Genocide and war crimes are nothing new under the sun, as
a cursory perusal of the Book of Esther, or the instructions given the
Hebrews in Leviticus as to how they were to conduct themselves vis a vis the
inhabitants of the promised lands they were about to take possession of,
will confirm. Centuries of work by moral philosophers, and military,
theological and legal scholars have produced what must strike any reasonable
person as equable, if not altogether comprehensive, international standards
for the ethical treatment of innocents in time of war. But recent events in
Central America and Africa, as well as Bosnia, and the botch made by an
Italian military tribunal of what may be the last trial of a high ranking
Nazi war criminal, have made it disturbingly clear how frequently and
blatantly the Law of War is disregarded...
Guerilla Warfare- An Introduction to the Art
of Revolution There are a number
of fairly good books on guerilla warfare, some of which are published by the
U.S. Army, Marines and Navy. "Field guides" for counter-insurgency divisions
of the Marines, the Rangers 101 Airborne and especially the Navy Seals are
particularly worth reading, as they deal with scrounging for food and first
aid, as well as survival in combat situations. Another good book is
"Guerilla Warfare" by Che Guevarra, which provides a good introduction to
underground techniques, without going into the particulars of actual combat.
Much of the following information is contained in Che's book. If you're
really interested in combat strategy, you should look into historical
accounts of actual combat...
Psychological Operations in Guerilla Warfare
- tactical manual published by the Central Intelligence Agency and
distributed to the Contras in Central America.
Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare
- features an article written for members of the resistance against the
communist Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Also available
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Night Warrior Handbook - Book I
(2nd Battalion, 5th Marines - Training for Night
Operations in the Infantry Company)
Night Warrior Handbook - Book II (2nd Battalion, 5th Marines -
Training for Night Operations in the Infantry Company)
Night Warrior Handbook - Book II (Bibliography) (2nd Battalion,
5th Marines - Training for Night Operations in the Infantry Company)
BUSHCRAFT PROGRAM OF INSTRUCTION:
This is a outline of Bushcraft and Tracking course curriculum.
COMBAT TRACKING TECHNIQUES:
How To Track Your Enemy.
TRACKING AND COUNTERTRACKING:
Extract from course notes.
TRACKING: Chapter 7
of Rhodesian COIN manual.
FOLLOW UP OPERATIONS:
Chapter 8 of Rhodesian COIN manual.
RURAL TRACKING OPERATIONS:
Extract from Rhodesian S.A.S. (Special Air Service) combat field manual.
ZAMBEZI VALLEY MANHUNT:
A article about the T.C.U. and one of its operations. The T.C.U. was
absorbed into the Selous Scouts, making up some of the original cadre of
that organization.
TRACKING FOR SURVIVAL:
Covers basic knowledge and skills for military bush trackers.
ADVANCE TRACKING TECHNIQUES:
This picks up basically were tracking for survival leaves off.
TRACKING: THE FOLLOW UP:
Techniques employed by scout trackers to pick up lost spoor.
BUSH TRACKING AND COUNTERTRACKING:
Successful techniques employed in the bush by scout trackers.
SELOUS SCOUTS, FOXHOUNDS, BEACONS AND
TRANSMITTERS: A peculiar and
experimental use of tracking dogs.
OVERCOMING TRACKING PROBLEMS: The essence of the Selous Scouts.
TRACKING TERRS / GUERRILLAS: The employment of native trackers
and combat trackers in a counter-insurgency conflict.
TRACKING TECHNIQUES FOR PREDATOR AND PREY:
This is some tracking information on techniques employed by the Rhodesian
Security Forces and the Scouts.
Arm-and-Hand Signals for Ground Forces
- Note: This page contains over 50
hand signals and is graphics intensive, so be aware of a long load time.
FM 17-98
SCOUT PLATOON, 10 APR 1999 [PDF Download] Also available in
HTML HERE and
HERE
FM 7-93
LONG-RANGE SURVEILLANCE UNIT OPERATIONS, 03 OCT 1995. Also available
HERE
FM 7-85
RANGER UNIT OPERATIONS, 09 JUN 1987
FM 7-8
INFANTRY RIFLE PLATOON AND SQUAD, 22 APR 1992 , CHANGE 1, 1 MARCH 2001. Also
available
HERE and
HERE [PDF]
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