US Army Small Unit Tactics Handbook Kindle Edition

Great read with awesome historical content setting the foundation of the modern Rangers and Special Forces Soldiers. However, the editing of this book is atrocious. I wonder if it was even edited. Rather embarrassing.

You will enjoy this book. Highly recommend.

As an aspiring green beret, I was ecstatic when I found this book. It covers a wide range for patrolling as well as other battle drills and warrior skills. My only gripe with it is that while its starts out in typical book fashion, it quickly turns into Army doctrine and regulation format, and for anyone who has read army field manuals or TC's, you know they can become a quite dull and dry. With that said, I highly reccomend this as an interesting and informative Book for anyone interested in advanced patrolling tactics or even if your just a huge fan of Special Operations. If you are using this to help you for Selection or Ranger school, than I wish you the best of luck.

Highly recommend for soldiers, or anybody going into the Special Operations/Forces fields of the military. It’s useful to see what type of things military personnel in these fields are trained upon(From a actual soldier)

Do you like useless military acronyms (UMAs), to include useless military acronyms that are repeatedly defined (UMA-RD) and useless military acronyms that are defined but used only once (UMA-UOO)? What about useless military acronyms (UMAs) that are defined and then used inconsistently, like Special Operations Forces (SOF) being defined as Special Operations Forces (SOF) but then called SCF half the time? If you like useless military acronyms (UMAs) in all their flavors, then this is the book for you! If you don't, it will give you headaches. I had to put this down after about a hundred pages, due to the lame acronym usage (LAU). Which is a shame, because the content is incredible, due to the authors' long experience in Special Operations Forces (SCF) and deep interest in SCF military history (MH-SOF). If they do a second edition that is edited, I will be the first to buy it.PS I feel OK giving a one star review (1SR) because it already has hundreds of five star reviews (5SRs).

Okay, this manual may or may not be the pinnacle script for small unit tactics, but it contains a ton of history and that alone makes it a worthwhile read. It goes back as far as the inception of Special Forces from it's roots in WW II OSS and other units. The mindset behind how and why things are done is fantastic too. If you are a past or current silent professional you know what I mean.

For those with an interest in military history and tactics, would definitely recommend.

This book covers Medal of Honor stories, how to conduct a patrol, basic weapons knowledge, how to stop a sucking chest wound, how to tie a rappel seat, and much more.

if you've read the ranger handbook (which in itself is extremely minimalist) you wouldn't learn much from this, essentially most of the basic tactical principles are the same except that most of the survivalist elements are replaced with biographies about special forces soldiers , the MOUT section of the book was terrible only only consisted of a few pages, two on basic room clearing which had less than what the ranger handbook provided and one crude page on urban patrolling, I fail to see how this would be of any use to anybody in special forces, even some ex conscript from a poorly trained army in a third world country that dropped out after a few months of service could write a better book than this that teaches actual skills if they put their mind to it, the most pathetic part was that the author doesn't know the difference between survival skills (living in the wilderness) and fieldcraft (operating in the field as a soldier while avoiding drawing attention to yourself) and he put in a few pages from a public domain manual on how to unjam guns, as if somebody who's in the already in the Army and as gone as far as commencing special forces training wouldn't already know that, for some reason he treats special forces candidates as if they have no military training, this book was a overpriced cash crab and barely qualifies as a "small unit tactics"" book, if I had to recommend any alternative they would be the Small Unit Tactics Smartbook by Norman Wade and Christopher Larsen and the USMC MOUT manual MCRB 12-10B.1, the latter of which can be found for free on the internet and teaches much more about Urban Warfare than this.