Special forces (Military science)
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Broader terms:- Commando troops
- Counterinsurgency
- Guerrilla warfare
- Military art and science
- Special operations (Military science)
- Special force troops
- Special operations forces (Military science)
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Dave Dawson With the Commandos (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1942), by Robert Sidney Bowen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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Filed under: Commando troops -- Juvenile fiction- Dave Dawson With the Commandos (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1942), by Robert Sidney Bowen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Counterinsurgency: Strategy and the Phoenix of American Capability (1995), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
- Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the 21st Century: Reconceputalizing Threat and Response (2004), by Steven Metz and Raymond A. Millen (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
- The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare (electronic edition, 2002), by John Morgan Gates (HTML and PDF files at Wooster)
- Enduring Voices: Oral Histories of the U.S. Army Experience in Afghanistan, 2003-2005 (Washington: US Army Center of Military History, 2008), ed. by Christopher N. Koontz (PDF at US Army CMH)
- Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958 (originally published in 1963, with a new foreword written in 2006), by David Galula, contrib. by Bruce Hoffman (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
- U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1942-1976 (Washington: Center of Military History, U. S. Army, 2006), by A. J. Birtle (PDF at US Army CMH)
- Counterinsurgency: A Symposium, April 16-20, 1962 (with a new introduction, 2006), by Stephen T. Hosmer and Sybille O. Crane (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
- Counterinsurgency (US Army Field Manual 3-24; MCWP 3-33.5; 2006), by David Howell Petraeus and James F. Amos (PDF at fas.org)
- The Hukbalahap Insurrection: A Case Study of a Successful Anti-Insurgency Operation in the Philippines, 1946-1955 (Washington: U.S. Army Center for Military History, 1987), by Lawrence M. Greenberg
- The Hukbalahap Insurrection: A Case Study of a Successful Anti-Insurgency Operation in the Philippines, 1946-1955 (Washington: U.S. Army Center for Military History, 1986), by Lawrence M. Greenberg
- U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1942-1976 (Washington: Center of Military History, U. S. Army, 2006), by A. J. Birtle (PDF at US Army CMH)
- Learning from Iraq: Counterinsurgency in American Strategy (2007), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
- U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1942-1976 (Washington: Center of Military History, U. S. Army, 2006), by A. J. Birtle (PDF at US Army CMH)
- Instruments of Statecraft: U.S. Guerilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counterterrorism, 1940-1990, by Michael McClintock (HTML at statecraft.org)
- War and Insurgency in the Western Sahara (Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2013), by Geoffrey Jensen (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
- Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia (London et al.: Croom Helm, c1985), by Jakkie Cilliers (PDF at Wayback Machine)
- The Guerrilla and How to Fight Him (originally published 1962; Fleet Marine Force Reference Publication 12-25; Quantico, VA: United States Marine Corps, 1990), ed. by Thomas Nicholls Greene (PDF at marines.mil)
- The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare (electronic edition, 2002), by John Morgan Gates (HTML and PDF files at Wooster)
- Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla, by Carlos Marighella (HTML at marxists.org)
- Counterinsurgency: Strategy and the Phoenix of American Capability (1995), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
- Simple Sabotage Field Manual (provisional Strategic Services field manual #3 (declassified); 1944), by United States Office of Strategic Services (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- US Army Special Warfare: Its Origins: Psychological and Unconventional Warfare, 1941-1952, by Alfred H. Paddock (PDF at dtic.mil)
- Armed and Aimless: Armed Groups, Guns, and Human Security in the ECOWAS Region (Geneva: Small Arms Survey, c2005), ed. by Nicolas Florquin and Eric Berman (PDF with commentary at smallarmssurvey.org)
- Cobra (c1985), by Timothy Zahn (multiple formats with commentary at Baen Free Library)
- Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, by Tayacan (text at tscm.com)
- Small Wars Manual (1940 edition), by United States Marine Corps
- Wars of the Third Kind: Conflict in Underdeveloped Countries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Edward E. Rice (HTML at UC Press)
- With the Swamp Fox: A Story of General Marion's Young Spies (New York: A. L. Burt, c1899), by James Otis, illust. by J. Watson Davis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond (London and New York: Zed Books, c2013), by Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern (PDF with commentary at Diva)
- The Art and Science of War Versus the Art of Fighting (Washington: National Pub. Co., 1922), by Robert Goldthwaite Carter
- Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle (1921), by Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq, trans. by John N. Greely and Robert C. Cotton (Gutenberg text)
- Elements of Military Art and Science: or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactics of Battles, &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers, Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia (third edition, with critical notes on Mexican and Crimean wars; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1862), by H. W. Halleck
- The Future of War in its Technical, Economic, and Political Relations: Is War Now Impossible? (New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1899), by Jan Bloch, trans. by R. E. C. Long, contrib. by W. T. Stead
- On War (1832 German version, and 1873 English translation), by Carl von Clausewitz, trans. by J. J. Graham (HTML with commentary at clausewitzstudies.org)
- Organization and Tactics (London et al.: B. Westermann and Co., 1895), by Arthur L. Wagner
- Principles of War, by Carl von Clausewitz, trans. by Hans W. Gatzke (HTML at clausewitxstudies.org)
- Quick Training for War: A Few Practical Suggestions (London: H. Jenkins Ltd., 1914), by Robert Baden-Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Service of Security and Information (11th edition; Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., c1903), by Arthur L. Wagner
- The Spirit of Military Institutions (Columbia, SC: Evans and Cogswell, 1864), by Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, ed. by Frank Schaller, contrib. by Antoine Henri Jomini
- A Treatise on the Science of War and Fortification: Composed for the Use of the Imperial Polytechnick School, and Military Schools, and Translated for the War Department, for the Use of the Military Academy of the United States (2 volumes; New York: Printed by J. Seymour, 1817), by Simon Gay de Vernon, trans. by John Michael O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Paris: or, The Future of War (New York: E. P. Dutton, c1925), by Basil Henry Liddell Hart
- The Two Maps of Europe, and Some Other Aspects of the Great War (London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1915), by Hilaire Belloc
- Sea, Land, and Air Strategy: A Comparison (London: J. Murray, 1914), by George Aston (page images at HathiTrust)
- Strategic Appraisal: The Changing Role of Information in Warfare (1999), ed. by Zalmay Khalilzad, John P. White, and Andrew W. Marshall (PDF files at rand.org)
- Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond (London and New York: Zed Books, c2013), by Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern (PDF with commentary at Diva)
- From the Vistula to the Oder: Soviet Offensive Operations, October 1844-March 1945 (1986 Symposium transcript of proceedings, 1986), by Art of War Symposium (page images at HathiTrust)
- Warlike and Peaceful Societies: The Interaction of Genes and Culture (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Agner Fog (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- 700 French Terms for American Field Artillerymen (second edition, revised and augmented; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1918), by Edward Bliss Reed, contrib. by Robert M. Danford
- French-English Dictionary of Machine Gun Terms (Menasha, WI: G. Banta Pub. Co., c1918), by Harry James Malony, Frank Short, and H. Morton
- Hand-Book for the War: Describing the Military Terms in Use in the United States Service, and Giving a List of the Fort and Ships Belonging to the United States, Together With a Particular Description of the More Important Ones (Boston: Wholesale Office, 1861), by Gihon
- A Military Dictionary (Philadelphia: W. Duane, 1810), by William Duane
- Military Dictionary (1861), by H. L. Scott (page images at MOA)
- Vocabolario Marino e Militare (in Italian; Rome: Voghera Carlo, 1889), by Alberto P. Guglielmotti (page images at HathiTrust)
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