Sas And Elite Forces Guide Ropes And Knots

SAS & Elite Forces Guide to Using Ropes and Knots draws on the skills of the world's best soldiers to teach you how to use these essential tools in the wilderness. Tried and tested techniques used by the world's special forces give you field-tested advice on issues such as: how to take care of ropes, the most useful knots to use in a survival situation, how to make your own ropes out of animal tendons or plants, how to use your rope effectively when climbing, how to lash together a log raft. A simple rope can be a lifesaver in a survival situation. Knowing how to use a rope and make effective knots will help you in an amazing variety of ways – from constructing shelters and creating weapons, to fishing and hunting. Most important, ropes and knots act as literal lifelines in dangerous environments, such as when crossing a fast-flowing river or scaling a mountainside.

This guide to using ropes and knots draws on the skills of the world's best soldiers to teach you how to use these essential tools in the wilderness.

U.S. Army's Guide to Rope, Knot Tying, and Rigging is the quintessential book on how the U.S. Army trains and executes knot tying, rope use, and rigging. The book is filled with diagrams and charts to help the reader better understand how to tie various knots and lashings, use anchors, and learn the rigging techniques implemented in field and combat applications. Common equipment used in combination with ropes and chains (cribbing, skids, jacks, etc.) is also covered. Chapters include:?Rope?Knots, Splices, Attachments, and Ladders?Hoists?Anchors and Guy Lines?Lifting and Moving Equipment?ScaffoldsThere may be other books on knot tying and rope use, but nothing that covers how knots, ropes, and rigging are used in small and large-scale military applications by modern American soldiers.

Narrates key events in recent history of special forces operations around the globe, from the Gulf War through Iraq.

The POW How To Escape Handbook covers everything you need to know about making a successful return to friendly territory. Beginning from the point where a combatant finds himself or herself trapped in enemy territory, the book offers useful tips and solid advice on how to evade capture and, if that fails, how to escape. Key topics include the will to survive; handling stress in captivity; escape techniques; survival in a variety of environments, including urban, rural, jungle and desert; how to forage for food; tracking and how to cover your tracks; navigation, with or without a map; and seeking recovery by friendly forces. The book also includes a number of real life accounts of POW escape from World War II (including The Great Escape story and Colditz), the Vietnam War (Dieter Dengler, with others, escaping from Laos), the Balkans, Iraq (Thomas Hamill in 2004) and Afghanistan.

Covers special forces from the past to the present day. Sections on training and equipment.

The SAS have earned their reputation as the world's toughest fighting unit, from the Falklands War to Kosovo, the Gulf War and other crises elsewhere. This is a step-by-step guide to the tactics of such elite units, with true accounts of the SAS's most famous exploits, as well as those of crack US Army units such as Delta Force and the Green Berets. It includes: how the SAS and other elite units came into being and how they work; combat techniques in hostile environments, from the Sahara to the Artic; evasion, capture and escape routes; personal skills, including navigation, combat tracking and hazard avoidance; and wilderness survival skills.