special forces (military science)

Compares and contrasts some of the world's best known special forces teams from past to present.

Both US Navy Seals and US Army Rangers are well-equipped, well-trained, and incredibly brave.But what are their similarities and differences? Is one tougher than the other? This book explains what each warrior does so well.

Explores the United States Special Forces and the different groups that make it up, including the Green Berets, Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, and Air Commandos.

Danny Manion lands in the Studies and Observation Group, a volunteer task force that focuses on covert action and psychological warfare during the Vietnam War.

"A chronological account of the American military special forces unit known as Marine Force Recon, including key details about important figures, landmark missions, and controversies"--Provided by publisher.

Introduces the Navy SEALs, including their jobs, history, and more.

"Compares and contrasts some of the world's best known special forces teams from past to present through engaging text and dynamic infographics, charts, timelines, photos and strong reading level control"--Provided by the publisher.

"In the late 1980s, a secret government program designed to neutralize super-powered threats to national security was reactivated. Task Force X had gone through many transformations since it was created during World War II, but one thing had never changed: its members called themselves the Suicide Squad, and they lived up to their name. Faced with the rising tide of metahuman crime and horror, the program's hard-headed director Amanda Waller sold the president on her vision of an updated Task Force X: a covert action team composed of incarcerated super-villains who earned time off their sentences for every mission they completed. Deniable, disposable, and deployable to any spot on Earth, this new Suicide Squad would be the perfect weapon of last resort--as long as they could be kept under control"--Back cover.

Compares and contrasts some of the world's best known special forces teams from past to present through engaging text and dynamic infographics, charts, timelines, photos and strong reading level control.

The mining city of Talos on the planet Hephaestus has been attacked by an invisible enemy, and Bug Team Alpha with DNA-enhanced buglike capabilities is sent by the Colonial Coalition to help protect the planet--but they find a more complicated situation then they anticipated for the mining is injuring the crystal entity that lives in the planet's rocks.