Close Quarter Battle

  • Premiered: Sep 2012
  • Episodes: 13
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • National Geographic
  • Thursday
  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
Introduction to Military Special Forces
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 03, 2012
Examine the history of organizations, from the Green Berets, WWII paratroopers through to Seal Team 6, the British SAS, and private contractors, like Black Water and Brown and Root.
1x2
Introduction to Police Special Operations
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 10, 2012
See what it feels like to be “inside the heads” of special police personnel, and how their use of military-style strategies and equipment allows them to save lives.
1x3
Russian Army in Chechnya
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 17, 2012
After the fall of the Soviet Union, many countries remained in dispute. In 1994 a bitter conflict broke out between the Chechen independence movement and the Russian army.
1x4
SAS in Northern Ireland
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 24, 2012
The British Empire's legacy in Northern Ireland is well known, but there is an untold story of the firefights and CQBs exchanged between the IRA, the British army and the elite SAS.
1x5
Acid Gambit/Delta Prison Rescue Operation
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 01, 2012
The U.S. raid on Panama is recreated focusing on the reflexes of the Delta Force team from the moment they entered the prison to their extraction from the roof by helicopter.
1x6
Snipers & Scout
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 08, 2013
A look at the legendary JTF sniper teams, and their use in Afghanistan alongside the British SAS and the US Delta Force at “the sharp end of the spear.”
1x7
S.W.A.T.
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 15, 2013
Take a historical journey to the beginnings of the modern S.W.A.T. team developed in the rural area north of Los Angeles.
1x8
Hunting Sarajevo Snipers
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 22, 2013
Learn how snipers were used in the Bosnian War, and the tactics devised to combat them.
1x9
Private Military Contractors
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 29, 2013
A more contemporary look at a day in the life of a group of civilian army contractors, and how their role has evolved on the modern battlefield.
1x10
Close Protection
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 05, 2013
From the elite ex-special forces personnel who guard heads of state and the two person teams that protect CEOs in dangerous regions, modern-day bodyguards must be well versed in CQB.
1x11
Counter Terrorism
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 12, 2013
Terry Schappert looks at the counter-terrorism training and tactics used since the September 11, 2001, attacks.
1x12
French Foreign Legion
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 19, 2013
A look at the raid by the Foreign Legion on a small airport in Iraq during the 1990 Gulf War.
1x13 Show finale
Hunt for Saddam Hussein
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 26, 2013
Learn how special operations integrated into regular units fought through many CQBs to find and capture Saddam Hussein.

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