Combat Leader's Field Guide

Jeff Kirkham

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9780811761659
• Edition: 14

A guide to the basic skills all soldiers, sailors, and Marines must know to prevail in small-unit dismounted combat operations, including planning, battle drills for offense and defense operations, patrols, construction and emplacement of fighting positions, use of weapons and call for fire, land navigation and map reading, communications, close quarter battle, and tactical combat casualty care.

Table of contents

• Cover 
• Front Matter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• PART ONE: UNIT COMBAT OPERATIONS
• PART TWO: SOLDIER COMBAT SKILLS
• Appendix A: Rules of Engagement and Use of Deadly Force in Combat Zones by David G. Bolgiano
• Appendix B: Armored Vehicle Recognition
• Appendix C: Operational Graphics
• Appendix D: Minefields and Minefield Recording
• Appendix E: Platoon and Squad Organization
• Appendix F: Organic and Supporting Weapons
• Appendix G: Body Armor Levels
• Appendix H: Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Appendix I: References
• Index
• About the Author
• Stackpole Military Professional Reference Library
• Back Cover