The long-awaited continuation of the bestseller "Textbook of Survival of the GRU Spetsnaz", which has already gone through 12 reprints and sold out in record numbers. World Encyclopedia of Special Forces. Everything about the elite units of 100 countries, their organization, weapons, training and combat operations, whether it be reconnaissance and sabotage work behind enemy lines or the fight against terrorism. Spetsnaz from A to Z - from Australia to Japan, from the USA to Russia, from the Second World War to the present day.Being himself a colonel of the GRU Spetsnaz and a professor at the Academy of Military Sciences, the author analyzes the activities of elite units from a professional point of view vision, competently assessing their level of training and combat capabilities, successes and failures, defeats and victories.