The SAS Mental Endurance Handbook | Christopher McNab

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	The SAS Mental Endurance Handbook Christopher McNab The Lyons Press, 2002 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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The essential guide to testing and improving mental agility and resilience from the world's most elite combat units.

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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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.

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 some people will easily get bored.

The book does have a very interesting chapter on torture and interrogation. This chapter does offer some details about what is going on which is hinted at in the media but not addressed.

The book isn't worthless but not not worthy of a high priority on your schedule either.

Tom

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