Sniper & Counter Sniper Tactics - Official U.S. Army Handbooks
Precision Marksmanship, Battlefield Surveillance, Concealment, and Counter-Operations DoctrineBy U.S. Department of Defense
Length9h 43m
About this audiobook
Sniper & Counter Sniper Tactics presents an operational study of precision marksmanship, observation, concealment, fieldcraft, target selection, range estimation, stalking, camouflage, and counter-sniper response. Framed as an official U.S. Army handbook, it favors procedural clarity over literary ornament: principles are organized for instruction, rehearsal, and application under battlefield conditions. Its treatment places the sniper within a wider tactical system involving intelligence, reconnaissance, fire support, movement, and protection of friendly forces, while the counter-sniper sections emphasize detection, disruption, and disciplined reaction. As a military text, the volume belongs to the tradition of twentieth- and twenty-first-century field manuals that translate combat experience into standardized doctrine and practical guidance. The U.S. Department of Defense, representing the institutional knowledge of the American armed forces, compiled this work to preserve and disseminate doctrine rather than to advance an individual author's viewpoint. Its perspective reflects the Army's sustained effort to professionalize small-unit operations through standardized training, technical terminology, and lessons derived from changing weapons, terrain, surveillance capabilities, and asymmetric conflict. The handbook's impersonal voice is therefore significant: it presents tactical knowledge as a collective, revisable body of military expertise. This book will interest military historians, defense professionals, students of tactical doctrine, and readers seeking a serious account of how sniper operations are conceptualized within modern combat. It is especially valuable when read critically as a historical and institutional document, revealing both the practical demands of battlefield precision and the broader systems of reconnaissance, command, and control that make such operations possible.
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GenreHistory
Length9 hrs 43 mins
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Publish dateDec 14, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Sniper and Counter Sniper Tactics - The Official U.S. Army Manual
2Sniper Training:
3Preface
4Introduction
5Equipment
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6Marksmanship
7Field Techniques
8Mission Preparation
9Operations
10Communications
11Tracking/Countertracking
12Sniper Sustainment Training
13Appendix A: Primary Sniper Weapons of the World
14Appendix B: M21 Sniper Weapon System
15Counter Sniper Guide:
16FOREWORD
17AMMUNITION
18RIFLES
19SIGHTS
20NOISE AND MUZZLE FLASH
21GENERAL NOTES
22ANNEX A: TRAJECTORY OF 222 CARTRIDGE
23ANNEX B: DESCRIPTION OF EPOXY IMPREGNATION OF STOCK
24ANNEX C: FIRING POSITIONS
25ANNEX D: TYPICAL COUNTERSNIPER SITUATIONS
26ANNEX E: SUITABLE COUNTERSNIPING EQUIPMENT
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