KGB Alpha Team Training Manual
Subtitle: How the Soviets Trained for Personal Combat, Assassination, and Subversion
By: by A. I. Dolmatov, KGB, Peter Bercé (Translator).
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Paladin Press
Published: January 1, 1993
Place of publication: Boulder, Colorado
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780873647069
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Military tactics; Special & elite forces; Reference; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Technology & Industrial Arts; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Military - Strategy; Military Science; History / Military / Strategy; Handbooks & Manuals; Hand-to-hand fighting
Other titles: KGB Alpha Team Training Manual
First sentence: This [physical education] strengthens the health of the soviet people and aids their all-around development.
Description: A rare glimpse into how Soviet Spetsnaz and KGB units protected and defended their country from perceived enemies - inside and outside its borders. Includes special sections for Alpha Teams on assassination, sabotage and kidnapping.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-314).
Table of contents: title: KGB Alpha Team Training Manual - Front Cover; title: Title Page; title: Printer's Imprint; title: Table of Contents; title: Warning; title: Preface; title: History of Special Operations; title: The KGB; title: Special Assignment Units; title: Premilitary Training; title: Spetsnaz; title: MVD Internal Forces; title: OMON; title: OMSN; title: Alpha Teams; title: Afghanistan: A Training Ground; title: Russian Mafia; title: Notes; title: Translator's Note; title: Acknowledgments; title: Foreword; title: 1. The Foundations of Special Physical Training; title: The Foundations of Special Physical Training Organization; title: Principles of Instruction; title: Party Discipline and Knowledge; title: Consciousness; title: Action; title: Demonstrability; title: Systematicness; title: Gradualness and Accessibility; title: Lasting Acquisition of Knowledge; title: First Stage: Familiarization; title: Second Stage: Learning; title: Third Stage: Training; title: Test Number 1; title: Test Number 2; title: Test Number 3; title: Notes; title: 2. Movement; Overcoming Obstacles; Penetrating/Storming Buildings; title: General Systematic Directions for Teaching Basic Methods of Movement; title: Fundamentals of Movement and Overcoming Obstacles; title: Movement under Special Conditions; title: Special Features of Night Movement; title: Leaping Natural Obstacles; title: Running and Crawling; title: Movement in Mountains; title: Movement in Deserts; title: Overcoming Man-Made Obstacles and Positions; title: The Springboard for Landing and Jumping; title: High and Low Bars; title: Peaked Ladder; title: Rolling Log; title: High Plank; title: Pole or Rope; title: Solid Fence Obstacle; title: "Two-Tier" (or More); title: Barbed Wire Entanglement; title: Conduit Pipe of Different Diameters; title: Storming a Building, Using Door Frames and Window Sills; title: Jumping from Heights; title: Crossing Water Barriers; title: 3. Techniques and Methods for Teaching Personal Combat; title: Recommendations for Methods in Teaching Tactics of Personal Combat; title: Basic Vulnerable Areas and Points of the Human Body; Techniques of Inflicting Effective Blows; title: Head; title: Neck; title: Collarbone and Joints; title: Stomach Region; title: Legs/Feet; title: A Graduated Series of Warm-Up Exercises; title: Special Exercises; title: Blows; title: Blows with the Hands/Arms; title: Blows with the Feet/Legs; title: Safety and Self-Protection in Falls; title: Self-Protection in Taking Falls to the Side; title: Safety in Forward Falls; title: A Series of Exercises in Learning Safety/Self-Protection; title: Forward and Backward Falls; title: Sideward Falls; title: Forward Falls; title: 4. A Practical Section in Special Physical Training; title: Basic Methods for Capturing; title: Basic Methods for Silently Killing an Armed Enemy; title: Additional Methods for Silent Killing; title: Cold Weapons; title: Choking Techniques; title: Choking by Grabbing the Collar; title: Choking in Fighting Down on the Ground; title: Choking with Your Forearm While Pinning an Enemy Down with Your Side; title: Choking with the Legs; title: Choking with the Fingers; title: Choking with the Forearm While Pushing on the Back of the Head; title: Attacks by Teams; title: Silent Attacks on the Enemy from Concealment; title: Attacking an Enemy in Its Position; title: Capturing an Enemy Traveling by Bicycle, Motorcycle, or Horse; title: Signs and Signals for Silent Operations; title: Some Training Exercises and Tasks; title: Methods for Securing and Transporting Prisoners; title: First Method of Securing; title: Second Method of Securing; title: Third Method of Securing; title: The Use of Handcuffs for Securing; title: Standing Upright; title: Lying Prone; title: Methods of Conveying a Prisoner; title: Conveying (Under Guard); title: Transport; title: Methods for Evacuating the Wounded; title: First Exercise; title: Second Exercise; title: Third Exercise; title: Fourth Exercise; title: 5. Escaping from and Fighting Off Physical Attacks; Mutual Aid; Throws; title: Escaping Attacks from the Front; title: Additional Ways to Escape from Attacks; title: Escaping Attacks from Behind; title: Blow Combinations; title: Basic Rules and Recommendations for Learning the Methods of Escaping From Holds; title: Escaping from Holds in Fights on the Ground; title: An Assailant on Top Tries to Beat You While You Are Supine; title: An Assailant Gets You Down and Is on Top; title: An Assailant on Top of or Beside You Tries to Choke You; title: Escape Technique 1; title: Escape Technique 2; title: An Assailant Gets a Chokehold on You from Behind; title: An Attacker Has You in a Bear Hug from the Front; title: Defense and Mutual Aid; title: Blows-the Methods for Help and Rescue; title: Throws; title: Self-Defense against an Enemy with a Firearm; title: Basic Methods of Defense against a Firearm Aimed from in Front; title: Leftward Movement; title: Rightward Movement; title: Basic Methods of Defense against a Firearm Aimed from Behind; title: Defense against Cold Weapons; title: The Overhand Arm/Hand L