Combat Leader's Field Guide

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.
Extensively updated to include both the latest doctrine and lessons learned from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq Covers the equipment, operations, and individual security and combat skills essential for soldiers and others who must act as infantry Essential for Army infantry NCOs and officers at the platoon and company level, Special Forces A-teams, Air Force and Navy Special Operations, Marines, and any other element that operates as infantry.