Customer Reviews

Ranger Handbook

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I have spent a number of years in Special Forces, and have on many occassions worked with Rangers. They are excellent at small unit tactics. This book is, you might say, thier Bible. But there are many units who follow its doctrine. We in Special Forces use this book in our initial training, as do many infantry units, including Marines I have worked with. For those who might be thinking of trying out for Special Forces or Rangers, make sure you read this book well in advance. Learn it. Live it. (There is a reason Rangers are so squared away.)

This book is compact and useful for mission planning and execution (planning missions like raids, ambushes, or reconnaisance patrols, calling in medevac, adjusting artillery, etc.). It is used constantly by students at U.S. Army Ranger School - you carry it with you at all times. But books like the "Combat Leader's Field Guide" are more useful for military officers and NCO's in field operations, since they have information on a much wider range of problems and equipment.

This is an excellent book, printed just the right size for taking it with you in the field where you need it. Like the ones issued to active duty personel, it's bound on the top for easy reading.

This is perhaps the single greatest book on small unit tactics available. It is well organized, to the point and written after hundreds of years of experience. It is not a good manual for "individual combat skills." There is information that would be interesting to anyone needing to know about small team leadership int the field. There are good sections on warning and operations orders, patrolling and immediate action drills. Some of the information is only useful for study, as they are not applicable to anyone not supported by the larger US Army (like fire and air support.) This review would be a "high four" but it becomes a "low three" because of the production quality. A lot of the illustrations and tables have been copied so many times and reduced so much that they approach being un-readable. If you can find another version (hopefully that you can see hands on) get it.

This manual was REDUCED to about 4x5 inches. Some of the tables are so small that the characters in the type is a black blob on the page, rendering the information unreadable. Most of the diagrams are so small that they are useless.

Whatever price you pay for this book it's too much. No, if I'd payed a couple of dollars for it at a garage sale I'd feel I paid a fair price.

This book is compact and useful for mission planning and execution (planning missions like raids, ambushes, or reconnaisance patrols, calling in medevac, adjusting artillery, etc.). It is used constantly by students at U.S. Army Ranger School - you carry it with you at all times. But books like the "Combat Leader's Field Guide" are more useful for military officers and NCO's in field operations, since they have information on a much wider range of problems and equipment.

When I purchased this book I was under the impression that the information inside would be easy to read and understand.Unfortunatly this was not the case for me.
Most of the survival techniques are vague and unhelpful.
The illustrations that are suppose to show you how to
implement these techniques are sketchy at best.
To put it bluntly I had to return the book and
find another one that was more informative.
So unless you are a military collector I wouldn't
suggest buying this book.

the book is edited in a very small print and the drawings are also very poor. The binding is on the top side and not as usual on the left side and this makes also that the book is difficult to handle

Informative, yet very very basic. It seems to me that anyone reading this book would be fully aware of the operational tecniques of the rangers. They are efficient, yet very step by step, and predictable. Also the illustrations are a bit difficult to follow.

if youre in high probabilty of encountering the US Army Rangers in combat, i suggest u read this book.