The official manual from the United States, meant for novices and experienced soldiers. Describes ways to use tannerite, aluminum powder, thermite, fuse cords, fuse igniters, and more in unconventional warfare--and much more.

U.S. Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare contains incredibly detailed information and visuals provided by the U.S. Army. With this guide, you will be able to easily apply its material to understand and create initiators, igniters, and incendiary materials.

This is an anarchist cookbook of sorts by army guys. It is an improvised munitions handbook made from U.S. Army intelligence. The table of contents includes gelled gasoline, fire fudge, napalm, silver nitrate, concentrated sulfuric acid, fuse cords, spontaneous combustion, and delay mechanisms. Brimming with special forces secrets, this guide is a critical tool for any provocateur-in-training and provides insight into how American special forces are fighting our enemies overseas.

U.S. Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare contains incredibly detailed information and visuals provided by the U.S. Army. With this guide, you will be able to easily apply its material to understand and create initiators, igniters, and incendiary materials.

This is an anarchist cookbook of sorts by army guys. It is an improvised munitions handbook made from U.S. Army intelligence. The table of contents includes gelled gasoline, fire fudge, napalm, silver nitrate, concentrated sulfuric acid, fuse cords, spontaneous combustion, and delay mechanisms. Brimming with special forces secrets, this guide is a critical tool for any provocateur-in-training and provides insight into how American special forces are fighting our enemies overseas.

• Meant for novices and experienced soldiers
• Describes ways to use tannerite, aluminum powder, thermite, fuse cords, fuse igniters, and more in unconventional warfare
• Special tactics book and a US army guide

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.

Readers interested in related titles from The U.S. Army will also want to see:

• Army Guerrilla Warfare Handbook (ISBN: 1626542732)
• Army Guide to Boobytraps (ISBN: 1626544700)
• Army Improvised Munitions Handbook (ISBN: 1626542678)
• Army Leadership Field Manual FM 22-100 (ISBN: 1626544298)
• Army M-1 Garand Technical Manual (ISBN: 1626543305)
• Army Physical Readiness Training with Change FM 7-22 (ISBN: 1626544018)
• Army Survival Manual FM 21-76 (ISBN: 1626544417)
• Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (ISBN: 1626544247)
• Map Reading and Land Navigation FM 3-25.26 (ISBN: 1626542988)
• Ranger Handbook SH 21-76 (ISBN: 1626545197)
• Rigging Techniques, Procedures, and Applications FM 5-125 (ISBN: 1626544336)
• Special Forces Sniper Training and Employment FM 3-05.222 (ISBN: 1626544484)
• The Infantry Rifle Platoon and Squad FM 3-21.8 / 7-8 (ISBN: 1626544271)
• Understanding Rigging (ISBN: 1626544670)

The perimeter around the occupied Gaza Strip is formed by a sophisticated system of fences, forts, and surveillance technologies. With each Israeli incursion, a military no-go area, or a 'buffer zone', is established along Gaza's 'borders', extending deep into Palestinian residential areas and farmlands-- further compounding the Gaza Strip's isolation from the rest of Palestine.

Since 2014, the bulldozing of Palestinian lands by the Israeli occupation forces has been complemented by unannounced aerial spraying of military herbicides, extending the reach of Israeli violence into the realm of chemical warfare. Today, the spraying has destroyed entire swaths of arable land in Gaza, forcibly changing a once-lush Palestinian landscape, and providing the Israeli army with better visibility to fire at Palestinian targets with lethal force from a distance.
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This book is a vivid document of this latest stage of Israeli warfare, including original maps, images, and visualizations which deepen our understanding of its environmental and human impact. It collects new documents, original archival materials, stills of drone footage, first-hand testimonies of farmers, organizers and protesters, and documents affected vegetation in Gaza as 'silent witnesses' to Israeli settler-colonial violence.

A Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Scourge provides a definitive account of the dramatic story of smallpox by a leading expert on biological and chemical weapons (The New York Times). Jonathan B. Tucker traces the history of the smallpox virus from its first recorded outbreak around 3700 B.C. through its use as the first biological warfare agent in human history, and draws some decisively important lessons for the future. In a timely debate, Tucker addresses the ever-growing concerns about the proliferation of the deadly smallpox virus and its use by terrorist organizations. Explaining how the eradication of the disease in the late 1970s encouraged military research and production of the virus, he exposes the failure of the Russian government to secure its remaining cold-war stockpiles, and evaluates the past and present measures undertaken by the United States to counter the existing dangers of a smallpox attack. Ultimately, he passionately argues for the strengthening of the existing legal ban on the development and possession of biological weapons. Impeccably researched, Scourge is as arresting as it is indispensable, and as William Beatty in Booklist raves, Tucker has a sense of ... history that helps him make the story of smallpox as disease and ... weapon fascinating and frightening. Scourge has been acclaimed as a concise, suspenseful and scientifically accurate narrative. -- The New York Times Book Review Tucker's fascinating, revealing book affords the reader a sobering look at this new type of warfare.... -- Chris Patsilelis, Houston Chronicle -- [Tucker] reports the debate evenhandedly and with telling detail. -- David Brown, The Washington Post Book World

U.S. Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare contains incredibly detailed information and visuals provided by the U.S. Army. With this guide, you will be able to easily apply its material to understand and create initiators, igniters, and incendiary materials.

This is an anarchist cookbook of sorts by army guys. It is an improvised munitions handbook made from U.S. Army intelligence. The table of contents includes gelled gasoline, fire fudge, napalm, silver nitrate, concentrated sulfuric acid, fuse cords, spontaneous combustion, and delay mechanisms. Brimming with special forces secrets, this guide is a critical tool for any provocateur-in-training and provides insight into how American special forces are fighting our enemies overseas.

State Secrets: An Insider's Chronicle of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program An unparalleled deception took place in the 1980s, while U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev was negotiating for the Chemical Weapons Convention. This treaty was supposed to destroy chemical weapons of the world and ban new ones. The Moscow institute that developed chemical weapons at that same time was secretly developing newer and greatly more toxic ones known anecdotally as Novichok and new binaries. Dr. Vil Mirzayanov, a scientist there, was responsible for developing methods of detecting extremely minute traces in the environment surrounding the institute. He decided this dangerous hypocrisy was not tolerable, and he became the first whistleblower to reveal the Russian chemical weapons program to the world. His book, State Secrets, takes a startling detailed look at the inside workings of the Russian chemical weapons program, and it tells how the Russians set up a new program in Syria. Mirzayanov's book provides a shocking, up-close examination of Russia's military and political complex and its extraordinary efforts to hide dangerous weapons from the world. State Secrets should serve as a chilling cautionary tale for the world over.

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.

Readers interested in related titles from The U.S. Army will also want to see:

• Army Guerrilla Warfare Handbook (ISBN: 1626542732)
• Army Guide to Boobytraps (ISBN: 1626544700)
• Army Improvised Munitions Handbook (ISBN: 1626542678)
• Army Leadership Field Manual FM 22-100 (ISBN: 1626544298)
• Army M-1 Garand Technical Manual (ISBN: 1626543305)
• Army Physical Readiness Training with Change FM 7-22 (ISBN: 1626544018)
• Army Survival Manual FM 21-76 (ISBN: 1626544417)
• Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (ISBN: 1626544247)
• Map Reading and Land Navigation FM 3-25.26 (ISBN: 1626542988)
• Ranger Handbook SH 21-76 (ISBN: 1626545197)
• Rigging Techniques, Procedures, and Applications FM 5-125 (ISBN: 1626544336)
• Special Forces Sniper Training and Employment FM 3-05.222 (ISBN: 1626544484)
• The Infantry Rifle Platoon and Squad FM 3-21.8 / 7-8 (ISBN: 1626544271)
• Understanding Rigging (ISBN: 1626544670)

Chapter 1 Foreword by Senator Alan Cranston
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Clouds of Secrecy: Introduction
Chapter 4 Infecting the Enemy: Biological Warfare in the Past, and the Road to Testing
Chapter 5 Living Near Gruinard Island
Chapter 6 Fort Detrick's Mysteries
Chapter 7 The Army's Germ Warfare Simulants: How Dangerous Are They?
Chapter 8 Airborne in the U.S.A.: Open Air Vulnerability Tests in Minneapolis, St. Louis, and the New York City Subway System
Chapter 9 Edward Nevin and the Spraying of San Francisco
Chapter 10 The Trial
Chapter 11 Terror or Error: The Yellow Rain Puzzle
Chapter 12 Engineering Genes for Defense: Recombinant DNA Technology and Biological Warfare
Chapter 13 Return to Testing: Field Experiments, the Dugway Issue, and Ethical Questions
Chapter 14 Worries and Ambiguities
Chapter 15 Appendices
Chapter 16 Index

Explores Nazi and Japanese WWII human experimentation, revealing the horrifying abuses, motivations, and post-war consequences, including evasion of justice.

Among the most appalling cruelties perpetrated throughout the course of the Second World War was undoubtedly that of human medical and military experimentation conducted upon both living and deceased human beings. The various Nazi human experimentation programmes were initially carried out not so much in the pursuit of any particular scientific discipline, but largely as a result of the Third Reich's obsession with race and eugenics. However, this criminal sub-discipline of the Nazi fascination, with its warped racial ideologies, was excused as little other than collateral damage by many of the Nazi physicians and their assistants.

Germany's Axis ally, the Japanese Empire, notorious for its cruelty and sadism ran its own independent programmes of human experimentation such as Unit 731 where human beings were not only subject to the most appalling abuses but were injected with cocktails of poisons and/or diseases and in some instances were dissected while fully conscious without any anaesthesia being administered beforehand. It can be said that both Third Reich Germany and Imperial Japan had a more or less inexhaustible supply of human Guinea pigs throughout the Second World War for its ghastly enterprise in human medical experimentation. These unfortunate souls consisted largely of concentration camp inmates or in the case of the Japanese the indigenous peoples of the lands they conquered along with British, American, Indian and Australian Allied prisoners of war.

Yet what was the true purpose of these so-called experiments and what requisites if any were, they to serve? And does any evidence suggest that mutual cooperation existed between Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire towards the collation of data through the execution of these ghastly endeavours?

Another facet examined within this work is why those Japanese physicians involved in human experimentation and medical torture were excused indictments for war crimes when the evidence against them was clearly so overwhelming? And is there any truth to suggest that the Allied powers benefited from the material obtained through questioning at the end of the Second World War? The complicity of both the German and Japanese pharmaceutical companies also has to be brought into question as many cooperated willingly with the military making handsome profits in the process.

This work is written in an attempt at analysing all of these factors within the context of a single volume, utilising the testimonies of perpetrator and victim through many new first-hand and archival sources.

This volume also serves as a horrifying and sobering reminder of the capability of man's inhumanity through two of the worst military regimes of twentieth-century history.

A Higher Form of Killing opens with the first devastating battlefield use of lethal gas in World War I, and then investigates the stockpiling of biological weapons during World War II and in the decades afterward as well as the inhuman experiments con-ducted to test their effectiveness. This updated edition includes a new Introduction and a new final chapter exposing frightening developments in recent years, including the black market that emerged in chemical and biological weapons following the breakup of the Soviet Union, the acquisition of these weapons by various Third World states, the attempts of countries such as Iraq to build up arsenals, and--particularly and most recently--the use of these weapons in terrorist attacks.

The Official U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Operations Field Manual is the newest edition of this critical U.S. Army field manual about the nuclear, chemical, and biological threats to our military members and civilians and covering a soldier's--or anyone's--use of protective gear and equipment to make himself and herself and their families safe.

Wars are a tragedy. Death and destruction define them. War also provides opportunities in a time of change. This was true for America's black soldiers in World War II, who were relegated to menial tasks and denied combat roles. That is, until the U.S. Army conducted a highly secret experiment in 1944-1945 by creating the all-black 555 Airborne. Unknown by the general public, men of color, participated in this classified effort, sacrificing everything to prove their competency and patriotism in their struggle for racial tolerance. They did so by leaping out of airplanes, not over wartime Japan or Nazi Germany, but rather California and the Northwest. There they fought the world's first intercontinental weapon, Japan's balloon bombs, carrying with them the threat of fire, blast, and biological warfare. In doing so, these young men became the Army's first fully certified smokejumpers amd contributed to winning the war. This is their story, neglected in our history books, to gain racial acceptance at a time when prejudice was all too common in America.

This is the book nobody wants you to read.

The persecution of Dr. Mirzayanov stands in direct contradiction of the Clinton Administration's commitment to strengthen democratization efforts in the former Soviet Union, and halt the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. I am confident that you share my deep concern over the treatment of this courageous scientist, and I call on you to personally appeal for his release.

- From the Letter of John Conyers, Jr., Chairman of the Congressional Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, to Warren Christopher, the U.S. Secretary of State, October 19, 1993.

I personally feel a strong common bond with this courageous man, recognizing that his motives are the same as those that led me to release the Pentagon Papers. The Mirzayanov case is an immediate legal litmus test of emerging Russian democracy. He is an individual in the true tradition of Andrei Sakharov, a man persecuted under the former regime for telling the truth, but now, rightfully, universally honored.

- By Dan Ellsberg, author of Secrets - A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

I was proud to add my voice to that of the many scientific and human rights organizations that have worked to free Dr. Mirzayanov.

- Senator Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senate (Congressional Record. Proceedings and Debates of the 103d Congress, First Session. Vol.140, No. 28. Washington, Tuesday, March 15, 1994.)

...in recognition of his courage and his singular demonstration of the moral responsibility of individual scientists in uphold the integrity of scientific knowledge in an emerging democratic society. The 1994 Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientific Award of The New York Academy of Sciences.

- Signed by Chairman Cyril M. Harris and President Joshua Lederberg.

Cavallo Foundation Inc. takes great pleasure in presenting a Certificate of Special Recognition for Moral Courage in Business and Government to Vil Mirzayanov

- From the Text of the Award in June 1993.

For his integrity as a scientist, strength of character, and exceptional personal courage that served to promote the health, safety, and welfare of the Russian people and of all humankind

- From the Text of the 1995 AAAS Freedom and Responsibility Award.

Guerrilla Warfare by Yank Levy is a comprehensive guide to the tactics, strategies, and techniques of guerrilla warfare. The book is written for anyone who is interested in learning about the history and theory of guerrilla warfare, including military professionals, students of military history, and enthusiasts of military strategy.The book covers a wide range of topics, including the history of guerrilla warfare, the principles of guerrilla warfare, the tactics and techniques of guerrilla warfare, and the role of guerrilla warfare in modern warfare. The author draws on his own experiences as a guerrilla fighter in Israel, as well as the experiences of other guerrilla fighters throughout history.The book is organized into five parts. Part one provides an introduction to guerrilla warfare, including its history and principles. Part two covers the tactics and techniques of guerrilla warfare, including ambushes, raids, sabotage, and propaganda. Part three discusses the organization and training of guerrilla forces, including the selection and training of fighters, the role of leadership, and the importance of logistics. Part four examines the role of guerrilla warfare in modern warfare, including its use in asymmetric warfare and counterinsurgency operations. Finally, part five provides a conclusion and summary of the book.Overall, Guerrilla Warfare by Yank Levy is an informative and engaging book that provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare. It is an essential resource for anyone interested in military history, strategy, or tactics.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

In Six-Legged Soldiers, Jeffrey A. Lockwood paints a brilliant portrait of the many weirdly creative, truly frightening, and ultimately powerful ways in which insects have been used as weapons of war, terror, and torture. He concludes with a critical analysis of today's defenses--and homeland security's dangerous shortcomings--with respect to entomological attacks.

Matters of Perspective: Versioned Realities in Cold War WMD Intelligence is a study of the development and evolution, during three decades, of the Soviet WMD Operation-the integrated employment of at least nuclear and chemical weapons against the NATO alliance.

The book examines the 1950s origination; creation of an expansive war fighting mechanism; apparent deletion of the CW variant in the 1970s; alterations in nuclear strategy; and non-nuclear options. Aspects of a unique strategic culture-inherited by the Russia successor-exhibited in an extensive array of classified documents acquired by the CIA is a significant element. Soviet theater operations planning to exploit mass destruction and conventional weapons by the mobilization and deployment of fronts (the basic ground-aviation assault groupings) provide context. Both substantive and perceptual problems of Western intelligence assessments are explored including details of stunning analytic failures.

The 352 pages include 54 pages of illustrations.

What is biosecurity? It's the methods militaries use to protect us from biological attacks, and developing biosecurity systems, protocols, and technology requires the application of every area of STEM. As such, readers gain a stronger understanding of a variety of STEM concepts as they explore this exciting and essential topic. They discover how the things they learn in the classroom can be applied to keep us safe. The clear main text is presented alongside helpful sidebars, detailed graphic organizers, and full-color photographs. In addition, questions at the end of each chapter promote the development of critical thinking skills.

Somebody's playing a game with us. -General Beringer, War Games

During the course of the SARS-nCoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic, described in this book as the event, many questions have been asked. Who is responsible for this event? Where did this virus come from? What happened in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)? Why did this happen? And many others.

In this book, many of these questions are answered, the dots are connected, and the navigation buoys anchored to steer by in this most terrible fact-filled account of the proceedings that have caused the event. The entire world has been played and is the victim of crimes against humanity. Read and learn how this all transpired, and do your own homework. Follow the path and take the trip outlined in these pages.

The book delves into the locations, people, and events that are headline stories and have made an impact on so many around the globe. This book will inform you, make you think, and help you understand the event that continues now and in the foreseeable future.

Gale Arlington Jr. is going to prove himself and being a soldier was the way to do it.

England, 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, and Europe is at war.

Gale and his friends are inspired to enlist in the army and believe that they'll return heroes.

Little did they know that war was not the light hearted fantasy they believed it to be.

Instead, the young men are faced with man made horrors they could never have imagined.

As the Great War stretches on Gale and his friends nerves and wits are put to the test.

Gale manages to befriend soldiers from around the world and becomes a strong leader.

Gale's unit is split up, half staying on the western front, the rest to Gallipoli.

Will Gale and his friends survive the war? If they do, will they ever be the same?