Military theoretical training

Военно-теоретическая подготовка

I am often asked fighters volunteer battalions - which books to read, to improve their military theoretical training? Says Yuri Butusov.

Today I will be talking with the staff of the two units of the Interior Ministry, which soon will go to the ATO zone, and I decided to lay out in advance are adequate in my opinion the links to read all could.

I have little time to transfer their knowledge of military theory, which is my passion for nearly thirty years.

I can not give them to explore the many interesting large academic books.

I set out to create a small library volunteer corps fighter, police officer, a member of ATO, which has no basic military training, and must, in a very short time to get the most succinct, memorable and useful information squeeze. This is not a systemic academic knowledge - is expanding horizons, knowledge, thinking exercise on the development of plastics, in a word. Ukrainian soldiers are now in a position, in what was the IDF during the war of independence of 1948-49 years. High motivation, but low combat experience and inadequate equipment. We should not compete with the enemy on the level of fire training. Yesterday's lawyers and programmers will not John Rambo, even if they have released 50 or 150 stores at the site. The winner is always the one who provides the superiority of tactics and thinking. We must realize the superiority in intellect, in motivation, we need to outwit the enemy to impose their initiative, to act with the favorable position for us - it is the best defense.

Just bring your literature selection criteria:

  1. Small and easily digestible product.
  2. Describe specific examples of fighting.
  3. The history of fighting partisans, scouts and commandos.
  4. Sources with large amounts of narrative in the first person, having the characteristics of the psychology of combat soldiers operating in the near and far behind enemy lines, actions in guerrilla warfare techniques.
  5. Describing the use of small-group tactics.

So here's my short list:

  1. Ilya antiquity. Notes saboteur tyts
  2. Martin Arostegay. Knights dusk.
  3. Unique blog and a series of essays about the actions of special forces in Southern Rhodesia and South Africa tyts .
  4. A series of articles on the work of the Israeli Special Forces "Duvdevan": tyts and tyts (here would have helped with the Hebrew translations into Ukrainian for activities "Duvdevan").
  5. A series of articles on the site "I remember" - the history of the Great Patriotic War veterans in the headings "scouts" and "guerrillas". I read almost all the stories, hundreds of them out there, but I recommend you at least a couple of my favorite to start: tyts and tyts .
  6. For English definitely recommend the creator of the book American "seals" Richard Marcinko and especially the classic "Rogue Warrior" (he has written four books, all very interesting). (By the way, I pay attention to the volunteers that translated into Ukrainian such a book would be a landmark - in Russian I have found none at all non-defective links, and many Ukrainian specialists would simply read out of principle).
  7. Memoirs of a Soviet soldier "Vympel" Abdullayev Erkebeka "Callsign -." Cobra "(Author recently passed away ...) tyts .
  8. Psychological preparation of special forces. Chris Makneb.
  9. Mediko_psihologicheskoe support of special operations. Oleg Syropyatov tyts
  10. Psychology of interrogation of prisoners of war. Oleg Syropyatov tyts

I repeat once again for the many critics and advisors - this is my personal criteria and my personal subjective preferences for our environment and for our people.

Update 1: Please who can - do Marcinko translation into Ukrainian.

Update 2: And can someone make me a website site something like "SWAT Library by Yuri Butusov"? Where would these sources would be uploaded and stored permanently - because sometimes close their popular following links to special literature. And I'll go slowly something that even the minimum necessary to add. By design - two columns. On the left are added to the book, is added to the right video for each material has a discussion forum with mandatory registration. This was a particular help intelligent and readable area. Who do?