Urban Warfare

by Jack Montana

Overview

All elite soldiers know that at times our towns and cities can be as dangerous as any wilderness. That's why they train hard to defend themselves from attack, looking at ways of staying out of trouble or handling it if it happens. Explore the essential techniques of self-defense needed for an urban setting. Under elite forces tuition, you can learn how to protect yourself against physical assault by either one person or several, or even cope with a riot. Blocking, punching, grappling, and kicking are all covered, but you will also learn how to avoid trouble before it even begins. The skills covered in the book include: • How to handle an attack from someone with a knife. • How you can tell when a person will attack. • Ways of restraining someone without damaging them. • How to generate maximum power from your body. • Ways of training for self-defense situations. • The most vulnerable areas of the human body.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781422294963
Publisher:	Mason Crest
Publication date:	09/02/2014
Series:	Special Forces Series: Protecting, Building, Teaching and Fighting
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	9 MB
Age Range:	12 - 15 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

1 The Challenges of Urban Warfare 9

2 The History of Urban Warfare 19

3 Urban Warfare and the U.S. Marines 27

4 Urban Warfare in Iraq 37

5 Overcoming Fear 51

Find Out More on the Internet 59

Further Reading 59

Bibliography 60

Index 62

Picture Credits 63

About the Author and Consultant 64