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Special Ops: Journal of the Elite Forces & SWAT Units Vol.25
various authors
ISBN 962-361-065-3
64 pages, 210 photos
This book contains these articles:
1) British Forces in Babylon - Operation "Telic"
The British war effort in Operation "Iraqi Freedom" is called
Operation "Telic". British land forces sent into the ITO
numbered some 26,000 troops and included the famed "Desert Rats",
the "Red Devils" and the Royal Marines. The British were
responsible for operations in southern Iraq and the capture of Basra
and its vicinity. Heavy fighting erupted in Umm Qasr, Al Faw peninsula,
and Basra. A combined effort of Challenger 2 MBTs, paras, commandos
and mechanized troops finally secured Basra, after street-to-street
and sometimes house-to-house fighting. Superb images of the British
elite forces in action during the campaign, well documented by Sam
Katz.
2) Operation "Falconer": The Australian Effort in Iraq
Australia contributed some 2,000 personnel to the 2003 Gulf War, around
500 of them were the elite SAS and commando troops. Australian forces
operated primarily in western Iraq, hunting down possible SCUD launchers
and weapons of mass destruction, and cutting off escape routes of
Saddam loyalists into Syria and Jordan. Again superb images showing
the 4RAR Commando and SAS in action.
3) 3-158 AVN in "Lightning Storm II"
To prepare the war against Iraq, US forces fielded Exercise "Lightning
Storm II" in Germany in late 2002 for training non-combatant
rescue and evacuation operations. 3-158 Aviation Regiment was the
key player in this exercise, with UH-60 Black Hawks providing the
heliborne platform. Carl Schulze faithfully documented the exercise
to its smallest detail, accompanied by crisp and sharp photography.
4) New Challenges for Operation "Unicorn"
A sequel to Vol.24's Operation "Unicorn" article, Yves Debay
returned to the Ivory Coast and followed up the action with the French
troops in an exceptionally illustrated article.
5) USMC Force Recon
Joel B. Paskauskas II brought us this expanded article on the elite
Force Recon Marines. Rare images of the operators in inflatables,
ship boarding exercises, diving training, SPIE rigging, HALO, TRUEX,
intelligence gathering, and artic training.
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