Tactics… The Missing Link in Military Education – Special Tactics

“For a study by an American of the art and science of tactics, one must go back almost to the turn of the century, when tactics was the subject debated by naval officers.”

– Captain Wayne P. Hughes Jr. USN (Ret.), Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat, 1999

Why are there so few books or references on tactics? Retired Navy Captain Wayne P. Hughes’ excellent book, Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat is arguably the only book on naval tactics published in the modern era. Good books on land warfare tactics, air combat tactics and law enforcement tactics are almost as hard to find. While the U.S. military publishes hundreds of field manuals, most of them are dry, difficult to read and often provide only a small amount of useful information. Field manuals usually overemphasize processes, checklists and terminology and rarely focus on how to actually fight and win in battle.

Special Tactics fills the gap, and they excel at doing so.