Today's excerpt begins on page ix.
Very few people ever think of killing as a profession; but for more people than the world’s governments care to admit, killing other people is indeed their profession.
As the founder of an all-combat martial arts system, Combato, and as a professional self-defense instructor, author, and bodyguard, I had to make it my responsibility to learn the grim business of killing.
Not so that I could kill others, but rather so that I, as a professional warrior, could better prepare to train others to defend their lives—or protect a client's life myself, when working in this capacity.
The Death Dealer’s Manual is the result of over a decade's research, training and practical experience in the ruthless arts of armed and unarmed hand-to-hand combat to the death.
The material you are about to study is not a compilation of incidents recorded from fictional accounts of murder.
It is a compendium of material drawn from observation and understanding of what real killers do, and how they do it.
Does our government train killers?
Of course it does, every government does.
To believe otherwise is foolishly naive.
In point of simple fact there are protracted periods of time when the U.S. Army Special Forces maintained a “hit team” of its very own— directed by the Central Intelligence Agency—at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Today the cia, dia, nsa, and each special operations branch of our armed forces all maintain elite “termination squads.”
These squad members are not wild-eyed murderers.
They are super-tough, professional commando-types who are hardened and trained to a degree beyond that of any ordinary serviceman anywhere.
They are masters of small arms, experts in unarmed combat, and in many cases, educated and sophisticated men and women who can match brains as well as brawn with anyone.
Is killing wrong?
That depends upon your personal philosophy and your way of viewing life.
If you believe, as I do, that killing itself is a neutral act (not to be confused with murder, which is wrong because it is unjustified) then you will understand what I mean when I say that a professional killer is no more than an elite fighting professional.
The rightness or wrongness of any particular act of killing he undertakes depends upon the rightness or wrongness of the particular cause he serves,
The same principle, really, applies to soldiers in any war.
Whereas the Nazis who killed millions of innocent people in WWII are today regarded as being “wrong”, the resistance fighters who killed Nazis in retaliation for their heinous acts of murder are regarded as people who were “right” to kill.
Causes can be good or evil.
But killing, regardless of how emotive a word it may be, is neutral.
In and of itself, it is senseless to judge the act alone.
Military and Mafia Killers
In the United States of America there are two primary establishments that employ professional killers: the military, and the Mafia.
Both organizations train and use professional killers.
Sometimes, the latter has formed a rather unholy alliance with the former, and actually used some of the former’s killers.
But that is getting away from our subject.
Hired killers of the military establishment who do their dirty work for the various members of the intelligence community, generally come from the Army Special Forces, the Navy SEALs, the Marine Recon troops, and so forth.
While the C.I.A. does operate a clandestine center for training its own officers in weaponry, hand to-hand combat, explosives, and sabotage, the Agency prefers to rely upon those who are full time career military pro’s (like the Green Berets), rather than their own officers who receive such training only as a supplement to their overall preparation for careers in intelligence work in covert operations.
Mafia hitmen are the most dangerous killers, though.
They are motivated by concerns far removed from patriotism or needs of the national interest.
Fortunately for us, they are used exclusively within the organized crime community to terminate informants, thieves, traitors, and their ilk.
The ordinary person need have no fear of these people, though I admit it is a little chilling to think that they are out there somewhere,
Regardless of who their employers may be, all pro killers use similar methods.
I is these methods that assassins universally employ that we shall explore and explain in the following chapters of this book.
Bradley J. Steiner
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