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Index
Cover
Title Page
CONTENTS
SPETSNAZ: RUSSIA’S SPECIAL FORCES
INTRODUCTION
THE BOLSHEVIK LEGACY
Airborne troops
THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
The Partisans
Naval Infantry 181st Special Detachment
COLD WARRIORS
Imperial enforcers: Hungary, 1956, and Czechoslovakia, 1968
The Spetsnaz mystique
COMING OF AGE: AFGHANISTAN, 1979–89
The “Moslem Battalion”
The Spetsnaz war
hunters and raiders
After Afghanistan: Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan
SPETSNAZ SINCE THE END OF THE USSR
Chechnya: First Chechen War, 1994–96
Second Chechen War, 1999–2002
The Kadyrovtsy – the Vostok Battalion
THE MODERN SPETSNAZ
Georgia, 2008
Special Operations Command
The GRU embattled, 2010–13
Organization, 2014
recruitment and training
Crimea and Ukraine, 2014
The “other Spetsnaz
The future
WEAPONS & EQUIPMENT
Small arms –
support weapons –
personal kit –
close combat
Underwater equipment
REFERENCES
GLOSSARY
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
AUTHOR’S NOTE
eCopyright
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