With a postscript describing SEAL efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toughest, longest, and most relentless military training in the world. What does it take to become a Navy SEAL? What makes talented, intelligent young men volunteer for physical punishment, cold water, and days without sleep? In The Warrior Elite, former Navy SEAL Dick Couch documents the process that transforms young men into warriors. SEAL training is the distillation of the human spirit, a tradition-bound ordeal that seeks to find men with character, courage, and the burning desire to win at all costs, men who would rather die than quit.

Introduction / Christopher Marsh -- Russian military special forces / Alexey Ramm -- Russian special operations forces: eight years and three wars / Alexey Nikolsky -- Ukrainian special operations forces / Anton Lavrov -- French special operations forces / Ruslan Pukhov -- German special forces / Sergey Denisentsev -- Italian special operations forces / Mikhail Barabanov -- Polish special forces / Ruslan Pukhov -- Iranian special forces / Yuri Liamin -- Israeli special forces / Mikhail Barabanov -- Jordanian Joint Special Operations Command / Maxim Shepovalenko -- From Akinjis to Maroon Berets: an assessment of the Turkish Special Forces Command and other elite units in Turkey / Metin Gurcan and Alexander Vasilyev -- Chinese special operations forces / Vasiliy Kashin -- At the edges of a spear's tip: Singapore's Special Operations Task Force / Graham Ong-Webb -- Colombian special operations forces / Nikita Lomov -- Algerian special operations forces / Akram Kharief

Heart-pounding accounts of the courageous men, elite methods, and deadly moments that make up daring special ops missions. They are the strongest, best-trained and most powerfully equipped soldiers in the world. The select few who overcome near-impossible odds. The special ops forces. Presenting real-life stories that read like fictional thrillers, Warrior Elite recounts over two dozen of modern warfare’s most riveting, dangerous, and infamous missions. From support amid the lethal chaos of major combat operations, like the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch in Iraq, to targeted military strikes against rogue enemies, like the Navy SEAL sniper shots that saved Captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates, these are the missions that test the gut level of even the bravest soldier. Warrior Elite brings readers into the heart of the battle to experience the hectic horror of Black Hawk Down, the blind terror of Tora Bora cave warfare, and the triumphant success of MIA rescue missions deep in Laos.

Today's global financial markets are every bit as viciouspsychologically, and sometimes even physically, as the battles thegreat warriors throughout history have faced. Just as the warriorsof old rode out to battle with the confidence and knowledge toconquer new lands and foes, so do the warriors of the market whothrive on the battleground of the trading floor. In Warrior Trading, Clifford Bennett, one of today'sleading currency forecasters, outlines a path to trading success byhighlighting the characteristics, the knowledge and skills, and thepsychological state of mind required to be a true warrior trader.You'll be introduced to some fresh and unique perspectivesregarding the markets, by looking at fundamental and technicalanalysis, as well as discovering how best to trade within themarkets as an individual. Most importantly, you'll learn how totake advantage of those moments when the perceptions of mosttraders (the herd) are at odds with the underlying reality-momentswhen fear, greed, and other emotions wreak havoc on the ordinarytrader's ability to operate objectively. Divided into three comprehensive parts, Warrior Tradingwill show you how to develop the focus, attitude, and mentaldiscipline of a top trader so that you can make the most out ofyour time in the markets.

To be the best, you must learn from the best. Drawing on exclusive interviews with former members of the U.S. Special Forces and leading sales professionals from a variety of industries, executive coach Bill Hart shows you how to develop the mindset, habits, and disciplines to elevate your sales performance to become the elite of your industry. With Hart’s proven tips and practical tools, you’ll learn: · How to train for any situation you’ll encounter in the field · How to overcome fear and channel it into productivity · How to leverage failures for personal growth · How to find your “why” and keep it alive · How to build your team’s shared vision, purpose, and goals Get inspired by these real stories from the very best in action, and discover why “The Way of the Warrior” will put your success within reach.

Major John L. Plaster recalls his remarkable covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War in a “comprehensive, informative, and often exciting…account of an important part of the overall Vietnam tragedy” (The New York Times). Before there were Navy SEALs, there was SOG. Short for “Studies and Operations Group,” it was a secret operations force in Vietnam, the most highly decorated unit in the war. Although their chief mission was disrupting the main North Vietnamese supply route into South Vietnam, SOG commandos also rescued downed helicopter pilots and fellow soldiers, and infiltrated deep into Laos and Cambodia to identify bombing targets, conduct ambushes, mine roads, and capture North Vietnamese soldiers for intelligence purposes. Always outnumbered, they matched wits in the most dangerous environments with an unrelenting foe that hunted them with trackers and dogs. Ten entire teams disappeared and another fourteen were annihilated. This is the dramatic, page-turning true story of that team’s dedication, sacrifice, and constant fight for survival. In the “gripping” (Publishers Weekly) Secret Commandos, John Plaster vividly describes these unique warriors who gave everything fighting for their country—and for each other.

In the Way of the SEAL, ex-Navy Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience and uncanny intuition. Along the way you’ll reaffirm your ultimate purpose, define your most important goals, and take concrete steps to make them happen. A practical guide for businesspeople or anyone who wants to be an elite operator in life, this book will teach you how to: · Lead from the front, so that others will want to work for you · Practice front-sight focus, the radical ability to focus on one thing until victory is achieved · Think offense, all the time, to eradicate fear and indecisiveness · Smash the box and be an unconventional thinker so you’re never thrown off-guard by chaotic conditions · Access your intuition so you can make “hard right” decisions · Achieve twenty times more than you think you can · and much more Blending the tactics he learned from America’s elite forces with lessons from the Spartans, samurai, Apache scouts, and other great warrior traditions, Divine has distilled the fundamentals of success into eight powerful principles that will transform you into the leader you always knew you could be. Learn to think like a SEAL, and take charge of your destiny at work, home and in life.