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A Unit 8200 base in the Sinai Peninsula, during the Israeli occupation. Unit 8200 was established in 1952 using primitive surplus American military equipment. Originally, it was called the 2nd Intelligence Service Unit and then the 515th Intelligence Service Unit. In 1954, the unit moved from Jaffa to its current base at the Glilot junction. [30]
For items in the Oxford Handbooks series, not merely any OUP title that could be called a handbook. Pages in category "Oxford Handbooks" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Paramilitaries use combat-capable kit/equipment (such as internal security/SWAT vehicles), or even actual military equipment [4] (such as long guns and armored personnel carriers; usually military surplus resources), skills (such as battlefield medicine and bomb disposal), and tactics (such as urban warfare and close-quarters combat) that are ...
The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books which provide critical overviews of the state of political science.Each volume focuses on a particular political science topic, with volumes on Political Methodology, Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Contextual Political Analysis, International Relations, Law and Politics ...
GIGN operators in 2015. GIGN is the counterterrorist tactical unit of the National Gendarmerie of France.. Counterterrorism (alternatively spelled: counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, relates to the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, law enforcement, businesses, and intelligence agencies use to combat or eliminate terrorism and violent ...
An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare against a larger authority. [1] [2] [3] The key descriptive feature of insurgency is its asymmetric nature: small irregular forces face a large, well-equipped, regular military force state adversary. [4]
Small unit tactics is the application of US Army military doctrine for the combat deployment of platoons and smaller units in a particular strategic and logistic environment. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The composition of a United States Army squad falls into three broad categories: classical, balanced and combined.
Saxon is the author, under his birth name "Don Sisco," of The Militant's Formulary.After his legal name change to Kurt Saxon, he authored the biker book Wheels of Rage, a partially fictitious, but mostly factual account of the San Fernando, California based Iron Cross M.C., an Outlaw motorcycle club; the Poor Man's James Bond series of books on improvised weaponry; and Granddad's Wonderful ...