European Counter-Terrorist Units 1972-2017
The Munich Olympics massacre in 1972 was a shock awakening to the public. In the decades since, European countries have faced a wide range of threats from Palestinian and home-grown terrorists, to the more recent world-wide jihadists. The threats they pose are widespread from aircraft hi-jacking and political assassinations to urban warfare against security forces, and murderous attacks on civilian crowd targets, forcing governments have had to invest ever-greater efforts in countering these threats.This book traces the evolution of police (and associated military) counter-terrorist forces across Europe over the past 45 years. Using specially…
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Weitere Autoren: Hook, Adam (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4728-2528-5
- EAN: 9781472825285
- Produktnummer: 24357586
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 15'422 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: Will illustrate a wide range of uniforms, specialist weapons and personal equipment, and re-create tactical scenarios. Photos and colour artwork of weapons and specialist equipment.
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Leigh Neville is an Australian national who has written a number of books on both modern conventional military units and special operations forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, their weapons and their vehicles including Special Forces in the War on Terror. He has also consulted on military topics for several wargame companies and television documentary makers. He lives in Sydney with his wife and two dogs.
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