title: U.S. Special Operations Command: " An Overview of U.S. Special Forces "
author:  Edited by Paul F. Kisak 
description: Paul F. Kisak has degrees in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics from the University of Michigan and is an Engineer &amp; Former Intelligence Officer for the CIA &amp; US intelligence Community. He has authored several books, edited many and has written over 75 Technical, Classified &amp; Unclassified papers, Articles &amp; Essays. He was also President of an award-winning Defense Contracting Company that specialized in Satellite Orbital Simulation, Planning and Remote Sensing. He has been a Contributing Author for The International Encyclopedia on Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence and written several award-winning satellite simulation software &amp; science manuals that have been sold in more than a dozen countries. He has also appeared in Marquis Whos Who in the World &amp; Whos Who in Science &amp; Engineering and continues to edit and write.
zlib_text: WEAPONS OF THE 
  US SPECIAL OPERATIONS 
  COMMAND
  CHRIS McNAB
  
  CHRIS McNAB
  Series Editor Martin Pegler
  WEAPONS OF THE  
  US SPECIAL OPERATIONS 
  COMMAND
  Illustrated by Johnny Shumate & Alan Gilliland
  
  CONTENTS
  INTRODUCTION 
  4
  DEVELOPMENT 
  7
  Innovation and adaptation
  USE 
  39
  SOCOM small arms in action
  IMPACT 
  66
  Controlling the firefight
  CONCLUSION 
  77
  BIBLIOGRAPHY 
  79
  INDEX 
  80
  
  4
  INTRODUCTION
  The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM or SOCOM) 
  was formally established on April 13, 1987 and activated three days later 
  under the command of General James J. Lindsay following a long period 
  of self-analysis by the United States Special Operations Forces (SOF) 
  community, triggered by the disastrous outcome of the failed Operation 
  Eagle Claw hostage-rescue mission in Iran on April 24, 1980. SOCOM’s 
  role was to be a broad one: to oversee and harmonize all US SOF activities. 
  SOCOM was therefore to be in the vanguard of future US military 
  operations.
  We should be careful, however,