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Technicals

By Leigh Neville

Technicals Social Sciences

Technicals

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Description
Over the last 30 years, the "technical" or armed pick-up truck has become arguably the most ubiquitous military land vehicle of modern warfare. Harking back to the armed Jeeps and Chevrolet trucks of the SAS and Long Range Desert Group in North Africa in World War II, the world's first insurgent technicals were those of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army in Algeria in the late 1970s, followed by the Chadian use of technical in the so-called Toyota War against Libya. Since then, technicals have seen use in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, as well as being used by Western and Russian Special Forces. Fully illustrated with commissioned artwork and providing rigorous analysis, this is the first history of how this deceptively simple fighting vehicle has been used and developed in conflicts worldwide.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
48
Release Date:
2018-04-19
Publication Date:
2018-04-19
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
147282251X
ISBN13:
9781472822512
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
168 g
Height:
182 cm
Width:
249 cm
Thickness:
7 cm
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