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U.S. Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare: Devices and Techniques for Incendiaries

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A field manual on incendiary systems

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A field manual on incendiary systems

This reprint presents a U.S. Army Special Forces manual focused on incendiary devices and their role in unconventional warfare. Its scope ranges from device components and delay mechanisms to materials and improvised construction, organizing the subject as practical military instruction rather than a broad history of Special Forces. The description also places the material within a wider account of unconventional warfare’s use of economic, psychological, and political vulnerabilities. Together, those elements make the book a narrowly focused document of military doctrine and technical subject matter; it does not present itself as a general introduction to military history.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers researching U.S. military manuals and unconventional warfare.
  • Readers interested in the technical subjects covered by military field guides.
  • Collectors of reprinted Army manuals.

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Unconventional warfareMilitary doctrineIncendiary systemsField manuals and military technology

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Book overview

Unconventional warfare is a unique and important part of US Special Forces. Aimed at exploiting hostile forces' economic, psychological, and political vulnerabilities, its tenacious and brutal tactics infiltrate, erode, and exhaust the enemy from many angles. Special Forces personnel spreading subversion deep behind enemy lines must be prepared to navigate and survive bone-chillingly dangerous situations at any moment; knowing how to handle, improvise, and modify incendiary devices is a crucial component of their training.

US Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare: Devices and Techniques for Incendiaries surveys the multifaceted and varied design of incendiary systems. Intended for use by Army Special Forces in the field, this concise and informative manual covers a wide range of incendiary devices and materials, initiators, ignitors, improvised constructions and material sources, delay mechanisms, and just about anything else you'd need to know about turning a cigarette and a matchbox into a delay or a shoelace into a fuse.

Technical information is also provided about incendiary materials such as napalm, gelled gasoline, fire fudge, sugar-chlorate, thermite, paraffin-sawdust, and more. Jam-packed with detailed information, The US Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare is a fascinating read for the curious mind and a fascinating glimpse into the high-stakes, clandestine world of Special Forces ops.

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