Download or read book Dirty Combat written by David Tomkins and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bloody plains of Angola to the jungles of Colombia, David Tomkins' career as a safe-breaker, arms dealer and mercenary spans five decades. A permanent fixture on the watch lists of intelligence agencies across the world, including the CIA and Interpol, he has served prison sentences on both sides of the Atlantic, most recently for conspiring to kill Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar. Dirty Combat is a no-holds-barred account of Tomkins' life, candidly told in his own words. Born in London during the Second World War, he was hospitalised for a time in a psychiatric ward and sent to reform school after he was deemed 'beyond parental control'. Later, following a spell in the Merchant Navy, he graduated from safe-blower to demolitions expert with a notorious mercenary army in Angola. From intrigue in Mayfair offices to the wild Tribal Areas of Pakistan, from guerrilla training camps in South America to solitary confinement in a US jail, Tomkins lets us in on the secrets of his life as a soldier of fortune. Tomkins' story reads like a real-life version of a Tom Clancy thriller. It is a shocking account of crime and corruption, and the scope of his activities will amaze and intrigue.
Download or read book Quick and Dirty Fighting written by Airek Windslayer and published by Booksurge Llc. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quick and Dirty Fighting contains clear, concise instructions on how to improvise weapons and how to use them. Most of these weapons can be improvised within seconds. In certain situations you will not have a long time to make a weapon to defend yourself, more often, you will just have to rely on what you can pick up and use immediately. This book will show you how and where to strike to use your weapon effectively. Some of the descriptions are very graphic, this is because these methods are real. All these methods have been used in real life situations and the results are not sugar coated.
Download or read book It s Time to Fight Dirty written by David Faris and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, actionable blueprint for how Democrats can build lasting, durable change—without having to amend the Constitution. “American democracy could disappear altogether within our own lifetimes. Everyone who wants to avoid that catastrophe must read his book.” —Guardian The American electoral system is clearly falling apart—more than one recent presidential race has resulted in the clear winner of the popular vote losing the electoral college vote, and Trump’s refusal to concede in 2020 broke with all precedents…at least for now. Practical solutions need to be implemented as soon as possible. And so in It’s Time to Fight Dirty, political scientist David Faris outlines accessible, actionable strategies for American institutional reform which don’t require a constitutional amendment, and would have a lasting impact on our future. With equal amounts of playful irreverence and persuasive reasoning, Faris describes how the Constitution’s deep democratic flaws constantly put progressives at a disadvantage, and lays out strategies for “fighting dirty” though obstructionism and procedural warfare: establishing statehood for DC and Puerto Rico; breaking California into several states; creating a larger House of Representatives; passing a new voting rights act; and expanding the Supreme Court. The Constitution may be the world’s most difficult document to amend, but Faris argues that many of America’s democratic failures can be fixed within its rigid confines—and, at a time when the stakes have never been higher, he outlines a path for long-term, progressive change in the United States so that the electoral gains of 2020 aren’t lost again.
Download or read book Dirty Fighting written by L. T. David Morrah and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dirty Fighting- An Introduction to the Principles of Combat without Weapons, was written by LT. David Morrah JR at the Anti-Aircraft Artillery School( AAA School) at Camp David, NC during WW-2. The concept was that artillery men's weapons may not be ready while working the guns so focused specialized hand to hand training was developed for them. It based upon simple effective fighting methods. The author's methods are: simple, effective and removes the sport fair play mentality in his methods. Great old-school street fighting methods from WW-2.
Download or read book Dirty Ground written by Kris Wilder and published by Ymaa Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the gap in martial arts training between sport and combat techniques, analyzes fundamental strikes, kicks, and locks, and presents sport competition forms modified for each of the three environments.
Download or read book U S Marine Combat Conditioning written by United States Marine Corps. and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a reproduction of the combat conditioning program used by World War II-era officer Marine Corps candidates, demonstrating physical drills and exercises along with combat instruction in judo and the use of knives, bayonets, clubs, silent weapons, and pistols.
Download or read book American Combat Judo written by Bernard J. Cosneck and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook of American Judo is a thorough study in the methods and techniques of hand-fighting. It is based upon the classic jiu-jitsu but incorporates most recent improvements in the scientific development of modes of personal combat. The first purpose of this book is to develop a technique of disabling and, if necessary, seriously injuring an opponent. The second purpose is to give the reader adequate skill and knowledge in defending himself against an assailant. Includes 200 photographs illustrating jiu-jitsu, wrestling, foot-fighting and police tactics.
Download or read book Dirty Electricity written by Samuel Milham MD MPH and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Thomas Edison began wiring New York City with a direct current electricity distribution system in the 1880s, he gave humankind the magic of electric light, heat, and power; in the process, though, he inadvertently opened a Pandoras Box of unimaginable illness and death. Dirty Electricity tells the story of Dr. Samuel Milham, the scientist who first alerted the world about the frightening link between occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields and human disease. Milham takes readers through his early years and education, following the twisting path that led to his discovery that most of the twentieth century diseases of civilization, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and suicide, are caused by electromagnetic field exposure. In the second edition, he explains how electrical exposure does its damage, and how electricity is causing our current epidemics of asthma, diabetes and obesity. Dr. Milham warns that because of the recent proliferation of radio frequency radiation from cell phones and towers, terrestrial antennas, Wi-Fi and Wi-max systems, broadband internet over power lines, and personal electronic equipment, we may be facing a looming epidemic of morbidity and mortality. In Dirty Electricity, he reveals the steps we must take, personally and as a society, to coexist with this marvelous but dangerous technology.
Download or read book SAS and Elite Forces Guide Extreme Unarmed Combat written by Martin Dougherty and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duck punch, cover block and knee strike. Boxing, wrestling and Ju-Jitsu. Gameplan, lines of attack and final disengagement. If taking flight isn't an option, fighting is a necessity. Extreme Unarmed Combat is the authoritative handbook on an immense array of close combat defence techniques, from fistfights to headlocks, from tackling single unarmed opponents to armed groups, from stance to manoeuvring.Presented in a handy pocketbook format, Extreme Unarmed Combat's structure considers the different fighting and martial arts skills an individual can use before having to consider at the areas of the body to defend. It teaches how to attack without getting hurt, and how to incapacitate an opponent. With more than 120 black-&-white illustrations of combat scenarios, punches, blocks and ducks, and with expert easy-to-follow text, Extreme Unarmed Combat guides you through everything a person need to know about what to do when escaping trouble isn't an option. This book can save lives.
Download or read book Army Combat Medics in the Vietnam War written by Harry Spiller and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, nine U.S. Army combat medics share their experiences during the Vietnam War, in their own words. Their accounts relate why they joined the Army during wartime and why they became medics, alongside minute-by-minute, gut-wrenching recollections of caring for the wounded and dead under fire. They also reflect the long-term effects that the war had on the medics and their families.
Download or read book Dirty Wars written by Jeremy Scahill and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enhanced edition for Nook features over thirty images, including film stills from the Oscar-nominated documentary Dirty Wars, as well as exclusive photographs of Scahill's reporting in Yemen and Somalia. This edition also features interactive color maps, as well as seven short videos that include the film trailer, clips from the film, and interviews with Scahill. In the video interviews, Scahill shares his insights on the history of drones, President Obama's hawkish foreign policies, and the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies. Drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, former Blackwater and other private security contractors, the CIA's Special Activities Division and the Joint Special Operations Command ( JSOC), these elite soldiers operate worldwide, with thousands of secret commandos working in more than one hundred countries. Funded through “black budgets,” Special Operations Forces conduct missions in denied areas, engage in targeted killings, snatch and grab individuals and direct drone, AC-130 and cruise missile strikes. While the Bush administration deployed these ghost militias, President Barack Obama has expanded their operations and given them new scope and legitimacy. Dirty Wars follows the consequences of the declaration that “the world is a battlefield,” as Scahill uncovers the most important foreign policy story of our time. From Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond, Scahill reports from the frontlines in this high-stakes investigation and explores the depths of America's global killing machine. He goes beneath the surface of these covert wars, conducted in the shadows, outside the range of the press, without effective congressional oversight or public debate. And, based on unprecedented access, Scahill tells the chilling story of an American citizen marked for assassination by his own government. As US leaders draw the country deeper into conflicts across the globe, setting the world stage for enormous destabilization and blowback, Americans are not only at greater risk—we are changing as a nation. Scahill unmasks the shadow warriors who prosecute these secret wars and puts a human face on the casualties of unaccountable violence that is now official policy: victims of night raids, secret prisons, cruise missile attacks and drone strikes, and whole classes of people branded as “suspected militants.” Through his brave reporting, Scahill exposes the true nature of the dirty wars the United States government struggles to keep hidden.
Download or read book All in Fighting written by W. E. Fairbairn and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this concise guide to unarmed combat and self-defence is a legend. W. E. Fairbairn (1885-1960) spent over thirty years in the tough environment of the Riot Squads of China's Shanghai Municipal Police. In order to lower levels of Police mortality at the hands of Chinese Tongs, he studied ancient Chinese and Japanese martial arts, including Ju-jitsu, and was the first foreigner to be awarded a black belt in the discipline. He developed his own system which he called 'Defendu'. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was recruited by Britain's Special Operations Executive as an Instructor in unarmed combat and expounded the deadly mysteries of attack and defence to scores of trainee agents about to be dropped into occupied Europe. His methods were approved and officially adopted throughout the British army. Fairbairn also developed weapons and defence aids such as bullet proof vests. He is best known as the co-inventor of the famous Sykes-Fairbairn knife. In this book he expounds his distilled experience of unarmed combat. Fully illustrated, it shows how to deliver deadly blows with hand, fist, knee and boot; wrist, bear- and strangle holds (and how to break them); how to throw an enemy, and how to break their backs; how to disarm a pistol-wielding attacker; and securing a prisoner. The book also contains a chapter on the use of the rifle in close combat by Captain P. N. Walbridge.
Download or read book Dirty Boxing for Mixed Martial Arts written by Matt Lindland and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sure-fire techniques for wrestlers looking to enter the mixed martial arts arena
Download or read book Cheap Shots Ambushes And Other Lessons written by Marc Animal MacYoung and published by Paladin Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Streetfighting is a down and dirty topic, and the author, an ex-streetfighter, shares his hard-learned lessons here. Want to know how to recognize a mugging setup? How to avoid getting sucker punched? It's all here, as well as tips on bullies, weapons, martial arts vs. streetfighting and more.
Download or read book Combat Judo written by R.L. Carlin and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dirty Old London written by Lee Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details--from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet--this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.
Download or read book Never Quit The Fight written by Ralph Peters and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006-06-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his global experiences from Africa to Iraq, author Ralph Peters attacks today's crucial issues of our time head-on, with the clear eye and blunt voice that has won him a devoted following.
