Modern American Snipers (45 page)

3/75 Ranger snipers and recon tasked with foreign internal defense, training Khowst SWAT.
Courtesy of Jack Murphy.

A Navy SEAL sniper at the office in Afghanistan.
Courtesy of Brandon Webb.

 

 

Also by Chris Martin

Shaping the World from the Shadows: The (Open) Secret History of Delta Force, Post-9/11

 

Beyond Neptune Spear: The (Open) Secret History of SEAL Team Six, Post-9/11

 

Engines of Extinction

 

About the Author

Journalist CHRIS MARTIN has covered the motorsports world since the late '90s. He writes for SOFREP and is the author of the e-books
Shaping the World from the Shadows: The (Open) Secret History of Delta Force, Post-9/11
and
Beyond Neptune Spear: The (Open) Secret History of SEAL Team Six, Post-9/11.

 

 

MODERN AMERICAN SNIPERS.
Copyright © 2014 by Chris Martin. Foreword copyright © 2014 by Eric Davis. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

www.stmartins.com

Cover design by Lisa Marie Pompilio

Cover photographs: soldier © United States Army; background © Stephen Mulcahey/Arcangel Images

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Martin, Chris, 1974–

    Modern American snipers: from the legend to the reaper—on the battlefield with special operations snipers / Chris Martin; foreword by Eric Davis. — First edition.

          p. cm.

    ISBN 978-1-250-06717-3 (hardcover)

    ISBN 978-1-4668-7623-1 (e-book)

  1.  Snipers—United States.   2.  Sniping (Military science)—History.   3.  Special operations (Military science)—United States—History—21st century.   4.  United States—History, Military—21st century.   I.  Title.   II.  Title: From the legend to the reaper, on the battlefield with special operations snipers.   III.  Title: On the battlefield with special operations snipers.

  UD333.M313 2014

  356'.162—dc23

2014040098

e-ISBN 9781466876231

First Edition: December 2014