KGB Alpha Team Training Manual: How the Soviets Trained for Personal Combat, Assassination, and Subversion

KGB Alpha Team Training Manual - Front Cover
Title Page
Printer's Imprint
Table of Contents
Warning
Preface
History of Special Operations
The KGB
Special Assignment Units
Premilitary Training
Spetsnaz
MVD Internal Forces
OMON
OMSN
Alpha Teams
Afghanistan: A Training Ground
Russian Mafia
Notes
Translator's Note
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1. The Foundations of Special Physical Training
The Foundations of Special Physical Training Organization
Principles of Instruction
Party Discipline and Knowledge
Consciousness
Action
Demonstrability
Systematicness
Gradualness and Accessibility
Lasting Acquisition of Knowledge
First Stage: Familiarization
Second Stage: Learning
Third Stage: Training
Test Number 1
Test Number 2
Test Number 3
Notes
2. Movement; Overcoming Obstacles; Penetrating/Storming Buildings
General Systematic Directions for Teaching Basic Methods of Movement
Fundamentals of Movement and Overcoming Obstacles
Movement under Special Conditions
Special Features of Night Movement
Leaping Natural Obstacles
Running and Crawling
Movement in Mountains
Movement in Deserts
Overcoming Man-Made Obstacles and Positions
The Springboard for Landing and Jumping
High and Low Bars
Peaked Ladder
Rolling Log
High Plank
Pole or Rope
Solid Fence Obstacle
"Two-Tier" (or More)
Barbed Wire Entanglement
Conduit Pipe of Different Diameters
Storming a Building, Using Door Frames and Window Sills
Jumping from Heights
Crossing Water Barriers
3. Techniques and Methods for Teaching Personal Combat
Recommendations for Methods in Teaching Tactics of Personal Combat
Basic Vulnerable Areas and Points of the Human Body; Techniques of Inflicting Effective Blows
Head
Neck
Collarbone and Joints
Stomach Region
Legs/Feet
A Graduated Series of Warm-Up Exercises
Special Exercises
Blows
Blows with the Hands/Arms
Blows with the Feet/Legs
Safety and Self-Protection in Falls
Self-Protection in Taking Falls to the Side
Safety in Forward Falls
A Series of Exercises in Learning Safety/Self-Protection
Forward and Backward Falls
Sideward Falls
Forward Falls
4. A Practical Section in Special Physical Training
Basic Methods for Capturing
Basic Methods for Silently Killing an Armed Enemy
Additional Methods for Silent Killing
Cold Weapons
Choking Techniques
Choking by Grabbing the Collar
Choking in Fighting Down on the Ground
Choking with Your Forearm While Pinning an Enemy Down with Your Side
Choking with the Legs
Choking with the Fingers
Choking with the Forearm While Pushing on the Back of the Head
Attacks by Teams
Silent Attacks on the Enemy from Concealment
Attacking an Enemy in Its Position
Capturing an Enemy Traveling by Bicycle, Motorcycle, or Horse
Signs and Signals for Silent Operations
Some Training Exercises and Tasks
Methods for Securing and Transporting Prisoners
First Method of Securing
Second Method of Securing
Third Method of Securing
The Use of Handcuffs for Securing
Standing Upright
Lying Prone
Methods of Conveying a Prisoner
Conveying (Under Guard)
Transport
Methods for Evacuating the Wounded
First Exercise
Second Exercise
Third Exercise
Fourth Exercise
5. Escaping from and Fighting Off Physical Attacks; Mutual Aid; Throws
Escaping Attacks from the Front
Additional Ways to Escape from Attacks
Escaping Attacks from Behind
Blow Combinations
Basic Rules and Recommendations for Learning the Methods of Escaping From Holds
Escaping from Holds in Fights on the Ground
An Assailant on Top Tries to Beat You While You Are Supine
An Assailant Gets You Down and Is on Top
An Assailant on Top of or Beside You Tries to Choke You
Escape Technique 1
Escape Technique 2
An Assailant Gets a Chokehold on You from Behind
An Attacker Has You in a Bear Hug from the Front
Defense and Mutual Aid
Blows-the Methods for Help and Rescue
Throws
Self-Defense against an Enemy with a Firearm
Basic Methods of Defense against a Firearm Aimed from in Front
Leftward Movement
Rightward Movement
Basic Methods of Defense against a Firearm Aimed from Behind
Defense against Cold Weapons
The Overhand Arm/Hand Lock
Inward Arm Twist against an Overhand Slab
Underhand Stabs
Backhand and Lateral Stabs
Self-Defense Using Additional Means
Basic Techniques
Methods of Defense
Additional Ways to Defeat an Enemy without Using Weapons
Twisting the Neck Vertebrae
Choking Techniques
Variant A
Variant B
Using Weapons and Other Objects for Self-Defense
Throwing Cold Weapons at a Target
The Technique of Throwing
Notes
6. Penetrating Buildings in an Attack
Notes
7. Models for Restoring Work Capacity and Monitoring the State of Health
Types of Physical Restoration
Pedagogical System of Restoration
Medical-Biological System of Restoration
Psychological System of Restoration
Rehabilitation
Massage and Self-Massage
Self·Massage
Contraindications for Massage and Self-Massage
Steam Baths
Nutrition in Times of Heavy Physical Exertion
Protein
Fats and Carbohydrates
Potassium
Magnesium
Sodium
Vitamins
Vitamin A
Vitamin B Group
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
Vitamin P (citrin)
Vitamin E (tocopherol)
Water
Ways of Monitoring the State of Health
Some Possible Breakdowns in Human Health under Heavy Stress
Injuries
Causes of Injuries
External Damage (Cutaneous)
Wounds
Bleeding
Abrasions
Blood Blisters
Internal Damage(Subcutaneous)
Bruises
Radiculitis
Dislocations
Myositis
Readings (Bibliography)
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