Leigh Neville

European Counter-Terrorist Units 1972-2017 (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Hook, Adam

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Munich Olympics massacre in 1972 was a shock awakening to the public. In the decades since, European countries have faced a wide range of threats from Palestinian and home-grown terrorists, to the more recent world-wide jihadists. The threats they pose are widespread from aircraft hi-jacking and political assassinations to urban warfare against security forces, and murderous attacks on civilian crowd targets, forcing governments have had to invest ever-greater efforts in countering these threats.

This book traces the evolution of police (and associated military) counter-terrorist forces across Europe over the past 45 years. Using specially commissioned artwork and contemporary photographs, it details their organization, missions, specialist equipment, and their growing cross-border co-operation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472825285
• Artikelnr.: 49475639

Autorenporträt

Leigh Neville is an Australian national who has written a number of books on both modern conventional military units and special operations forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, their weapons and their vehicles, including Special Forces in the War on Terror. He has also consulted on military topics for several wargame companies and television documentary makers. He lives in Sydney with his wife and two dogs.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Munich 1972
and after/The evolving threats: Palestinian
extreme leftist (e.g. Red Army Faction)
home-grown separatist (ETA
IRA)
early jihadist
al Qaeda and its franchises
ISIS/The responses: Germany (GSG9
regional SEKs
KSK) - France (GIGN
RAID
BRI and military CT units) - Britain: police (SCO19
CT-SFO
etc); military (SAS
SBS CT elements ) - Spain and Italy (GOE; NOCS
GIS) - Other NATO and European units (Polish BOA-KGP and GROM; Belgian DSU 'Diane'; Irish Garda ERU and Army Ranger Wing; Austrian EKO Cobra; Danish AKSA; Dutch UIM (BBNE); Norwegian ERU)/The ATLAS network - international collaboration/Weapons
equipment and vehicles/Other specialist technologies