Name: Close Quarter Battle
Released: 2012-09-03T07:00:00.000Z
Cast: Terry Schappert

TV Show · Action · Adventure

U.S. Army Special Forces veteran Terry Schappert is an expert on small arms, demolition, and conventional and unconventional military tactics. He is also a Green Beret and has served in the Persian Gulf War and in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and that plethora of military experience makes him the perfect host of this programme. Schappert takes viewers into the world of modern warfare, where he analyses and dissects a selection of high-stakes close quarter battle situations. Episodes detail how modern military, police, private contractors and sometimes even terrorist and criminal organizations conduct urban combat.

2012 · 26m

Starring Terry Schappert

EPISODE 1

Introduction to Military Special Forces

Special Forces veteran Terry Schappert meets the enemy head-on in this thrilling series about urban warfare. Terry looks at the three key elements of combat.

25 min
EPISODE 2

Police Special Operations

Terry Schappert reveals how special police units employ military-style techniques to fight urban crime.

25 min
EPISODE 3

Russian Army in Chechnya

Terry explores how Chechen guerrilla fighters held their own against the Russian military during a period of bitter conflict that involved ambitious mountain raids and the use of improvised explosive devices.

25 min
EPISODE 4

SAS in Northern Ireland

The history of the British Empire colonial legacy in Northern Ireland is well known the world over but a there is a largely untold story of the the firefights between and close quarter battles exchanged between the provisional IRA.

25 min
EPISODE 5

Acid Gambit

Special Forces veteran Terry Schappert revisits a daring 1989 Delta Force operation to rescue a CIA operative being held in Panama.

25 min
EPISODE 6

Snipers and Scouts

Terry sets out to demonstrate the different tactics employed by snipers in the field. In the process, Terry examines the work of Canada's elite sniper units as they served alongside the British SAS and American Delta Force in Afghanistan.

25 min

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U.S. Army Special Forces veteran Terry Schappert is an expert on small arms, demolition, and conventional and unconventional military tactics. He is also a Green Beret and has served in the Persian Gulf War and in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and that plethora of military experience makes him the perfect host of this programme. Schappert takes viewers into the world of modern warfare, where he analyses and dissects a selection of high-stakes close quarter battle situations. Episodes detail how modern military, police, private contractors and sometimes even terrorist and criminal organizations conduct urban combat.

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