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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