 Hello everyone Dylan Schumacher Citadel Defense and we are back with another edition of tactical book review today's book is small unit Raids by Matthew Luke and I got the first book that Matthew Luke wrote which is a pseudonym When they reached out to me and they emailed to me, which is very nice to them And they sent me the first book then they sent me a real physical book I reviewed it on this channel Was very nice to them and apparently I didn't give enough good a review because I had to buy this one with my own Money if you guys are watching this I still love you. Anyway, this book is Probably not one for you as an modern American minute man a couple reasons first off this book comes entirely Completely wholly thoroughly from a military perspective. It assumes you have access to all the toys, right? so the the helicopters and indirect fires and the 40 mic mics and the QRF and all the support structure and all the stuff Okay, so that is you don't have that and so for me as an everyday guy Not really jiving with that second of all This book would be better named fighting in built-up areas or or urban combat Because that's really what this book revolves around it assumes you're gonna go do a raid in urban environment And so it talks a little bit about like clearing structures and securing structures and moving through streets And you know different urban warfare type stuff, which is totally fine We need to read stuff about urban warfare But I would not have titled this book small unit raids because it's really about fighting in urban areas Now there are some useful things in here again You know they do this thing where they do a good job of Providing all these color pictures and there's lots of diagrams in here and like their analysis of urban terrain And stuff could be helpful But honestly you are looking for little nuggets in a rather thick thorough very thorough Book and so I would probably just tell you to pass in this one if you're like me And you're an everyday guy who's reading these books for practical use in your life And you're like well, I don't I don't have all that stuff. So, you know, how does that really apply to me? So I again don't think this was a worthless book. I just would not put it high on your priority list There are other books small unit tactics I actually reference quite a bit and use their diagrams and their general strategies and their general battle drills and It's a very thorough book. I really like that. It does a very good job of breaking out the acronyms So I actually reference that one quite a lot This one though, I don't know if I'll end up doing that. Who knows maybe I will but from the outset Just not the best book for me or you if you're an everyday guy Now if you're an everyday guy and you just are interested and curious well Hey, knock yourself out if you're in the military This is probably a great book for you because it will outline more likely more than likely what your kind of Operating procedures are gonna be so I hope that's helpful It gives you some direction on whether or not you should buy this book But this has been small unit raids by Matthew Luke do brave deeds and endure