European Counter-Terrorist Units 1972–2017

Leigh Neville, Adam Hook

• Publisher: Osprey Publishing
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781472825285
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

The Munich Olympics massacre in 1972 was a shock awakening to the public. In the decades since, European countries have faced a wide range of threats from Palestinian and home-grown terrorists, to the more recent world-wide jihadists. The threats they pose are widespread from aircraft hi-jacking and political assassinations to urban warfare against security forces, and murderous attacks on civilian crowd targets, forcing governments have had to invest ever-greater efforts in countering these threats. This book traces the evolution of police (and associated military) counter-terrorist forces across Europe over the past 45 years. Using specially commissioned artwork and contemporary photographs, it details their organization, missions, specialist equipment, and their growing cross-border co-operation.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Glossary of abbreviations
• The lesson of Munich
• The changing face of terrorism
• Intervention tactics & techniques
• Intervention unit profiles
• The atlas network
• Weapons
• Select Bibliography
• eCopyright