United States Special Forces

From Jimmy Blackmon comes a blow-by-blow account of his journey through the most challenging leadership and small tactics course in the world - US Army Ranger School. Through colorful dialogue and vivid storytelling for which Jimmy Blackmon has been praised, the listener will take a journey through Ranger School.

Discover “the stories America needs to hear” (Admiral William H. McRaven, US Navy (Ret.)) with these moving and powerful recollections of war, told by the men and women who lived them. Walk in my Combat Boots is a powerful collection crafted from hundreds of original interviews by James...

Buried deep in the US defense and special forces architecture is an elite, ultra-black unit created expressly to prevent weapons of mass destruction from falling into the hands of terrorists and rogue regimes. Their covert, surgical strikes eliminate grave threats so the rest of America can sleep without fear. Until now. After returning from a successful operation in Pakistan, the entire team is assassinated within 48 hours. Only their leader, Michael Garin, survives.

Mitch Mitchell was called in to carry out one of the most extraordinary and dangerous covert missions that he had ever carried out. The British Government was asked if they could carry out a secret covert mission on behalf of the President of the United States. Not just an ordinary mission, but a mission inside of the Russian federation, a mission inside Moscow. The mission was what Mitch had been trained for inside of the increment, a mission beyond all odds, and he was prepared to take it on. But the mission was not going to be easy, the request was for a specialist team to enter Russia ...

The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army. Edward Posey's The US Army's First, Last, and Only All-Black Rangers is the first complete history of this elite all-volunteer unit. As a member, Posey bases his account on firsthand experience, official records, interviews with survivors, and other material to produce a rich and worthy addition to the growing literature on the Korean War. Now the world will learn the true story of the United States Army's first, only, and last all-black Ranger unit.

A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of U.S. Special Forces on the front lines against the Taliban and Islamic State, where a new and covert war is keeping Afghanistan from collapse. “Powerful, important, and searing." —General David Petraeus, U.S...

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION When spy satellites detect the existence of a nuclear weapon aboard a hijacked cruise liner, US special forces are activated. And when it's learned that the same terrorist mastermind who escaped the destruction of his secret training camps is behind the new threat, it's clear that only one hard-charging commando unit can meet the challenge. TERRORIST HIJACKING The terror chieftain's plan is to sail the liner into the Med and explode the nuclear weapon, creating a global choke point for US sea power that would have fatal consequences for the future of America and ...

Special Forces training may one of the most brutal training routines that I can think of. They push people beyond their comfort zone to mentally and physically prepare for future tasks at hand. There are a few problems with Special Forces training doesn't fit well with the knowledge and education learned during my personal training certification school. Listen to this critique and simple fix on how Special Forces training can be that much more efficient at training candidates to be the best they can be.

In Under Attack David Alexander tells the story of the next phase of the continuing war against international terrorist forces. As the book opens, the successors to Al Qaeda are planning a bold new series of terrorist strikes against high-priority military, civilian, government and commercial targets around the world. Under Attack is not only an unforgettable page-turner ... it is also a warning of what might happen tomorrow if America grows careless again. David Alexander -- dubbed "the best damn action writer in the business" -- has a gift for extrapolating tomorrow's history from today's...