Counter Sniper Handbook - Eliminate the Risk with the Official US Army Manual
Sniper Threat Assessment, Force Protection, and Operational Security DoctrineBy U.S. Department of Defense
Length1h
About this audiobook
Counter Sniper Handbook—Eliminate the Risk with the Official US Army Manual presents a systematic treatment of counter-sniper operations, emphasizing observation, threat assessment, concealment, movement, reporting, and coordinated response. Written in the concise, procedural idiom of military field manuals, it privileges clarity, repetition, and operational utility over literary flourish. Its value lies in documenting how military organizations convert battlefield experience into standardized doctrine: identifying firing signatures, analyzing terrain, protecting personnel, and integrating individual vigilance with unit-level planning. As an official manual, it also belongs to the broader documentary tradition of professional military literature, where practical instruction, institutional memory, and disciplined decision-making converge. The credited author, the U.S. Department of Defense, represents a collective rather than a personal literary voice. The handbook emerges from the armed forces' continuing need to address a particularly difficult asymmetrical threat—an unseen shooter able to exploit distance, patience, and complex environments. Its organization and terminology reflect the Department's responsibilities for training, readiness, force protection, and the transmission of lessons learned across services and generations. Readers may therefore approach it not as memoir or argument, but as an institutional record of military expertise shaped by operational requirements and formal doctrine. This book is recommended for students of military history, defense professionals, security researchers, and readers seeking a primary-source view of U.S. Army protective doctrine. It is especially useful for understanding the interaction of terrain, technology, discipline, and command judgment in counter-sniper work. Read critically and in its proper legal and ethical context, it offers a focused window into how modern military institutions analyze and mitigate concealed threats.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length1 hr
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 14, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Records of a Family of Engineers (Annotated)
2FOREWORD
3CHAPTER 1 AMMUNITION
4CHAPTER 2 RIFLES
5CHAPTER 3 SIGHTS
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6CHAPTER 4 NOISE AND MUZZLE FLASH
7CHAPTER 5 GENERAL NOTES
8ANNEX A TRAJECTORY OF 222 CARTRIDGE
9ANNEX B DESCRIPTION OF EPOXY IMPREGNATION OF STOCK
10ANNEX C FIRING POSITIONS
11ANNEX D TYPICAL COUNTERSNIPER SITUATIONS
12ANNEX E SUITABLE COUNTERSNIPING EQUIPMENT
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