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The SAS Mental Endurance Handbook
by: Christopher McNab

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781585744428
ISBN: 1585744425
Label: The Lyons Press
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: March 01, 2002
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Sales Rank: 349682
Studio: The Lyons Press

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The essential guide to testing and improving mental agility and resilience from the world's most elite combat units.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- An interesting collection
This book has splashes of excellence in patches but that doesn't carry over throughout the whole book. It is a good collection on various topics but it covers to much to material for a good book. The good parts of the book is the mental conditioning. It does a good job discussing material from a wide range of sources on the mental part of combat. It is written in a how to sort of way. To me the mental part of war has always been very interesting. It is the key in how few numbers can trump all other parts of war. This book does explain that in a little way. However they don't talk that much on it. It is sort of a tease. This psychological aspect of the material could be applied to other fields with some imagination.

Then the author gets lost in discussion of basic tactics. This part of the book is written like a real manual. It puts out the basics and that is it. It also is written in such a basic way ... Read More

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- Read the book description before buying
I come from a background of enlisted and officer Marine Corps, working in psychiatric hospitals and counseling psychology. If you are looking for a book to strengthen your mental endurance, this ISN'T the book for you. While the book talks of improving one's mental agility, it instead talks of what some military special units do for training. General and vague, and certainly lacking do-it-yourself. Possibly the book "Art of Cross Examination" and "The Tactical Edge" are more helpful titles.

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- Not at all what the title implies
Potential buyers will very probably think that this book outlines a methodical training program for increasing one's mental toughness and readiness for battle or other lethal confrontations. It does no such thing. There is instead, a hodgepodge of information from military manuals about general military tactics, interspersed with a bunch of commentaries about how tough the training is for various elite military units. A serious student of military science will have seen most of this info before. I gave it two stars because a reader without any background will probably find it somewhat interesting. I haven't read any of McNab's other books, so I can't make a comparison. But if you're looking for a guide to the actual toughening process used by the SAS or any other high-speed unit, you won't find it here.

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- Revealing
Though this book can't really teach mental toughness, it does reveal much of interest such as: only about 15 per cent of US combat soldiers in WWII actually fired their weapons during encounters with the enemy; the best combat soldiers tend to come from stable family backgrounds; good combat soldiers generally have a higher IQ than those who buckle under fire. There is also some interesting stuff on counter-terrorist psychology and riot control. There is no other book like this on the market (I think), and it does give a detailed introduction into how the mind plays its part in winning wars. A good starting place before moving on to more academic studies.

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