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US Army Rangers 1989-2015 - Panama to Afghanistan

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Elite - Assorted

MSRP old price: $19.00


Product Info

Title
US Army Rangers 1989-2015 - Panama to Afghanistan
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Author
Leigh Neville
Publish Year
2016
Pages
64
Dimensions
7.25x9.75x.25"
NKG Part #
2147634694
MFG. Part #
OSPELI212
Type
Softcover
Series
ELI212

Description

Written by an expert on modern special forces units and the operations they undertake, this book explains the evolution of the Rangers' missions in Panama, the first Gulf War, Somalia, and the post-9/11 invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. It reveals the training and organizational changes that the unit has undergone and investigates, in particular, how their doctrine and mantra have changed during the fourteen-year war in Afghanistan.

At the beginning of the war, the Rangers were an elite light infantry unit of men tasked with short-duration recon raids and securing ground behind enemy lines in support of Special Forces - eventually becoming a special-mission unit themselves - on the cusp of being assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command.