Brotherhood of Warriors: Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the Worlds Most Elite Counterterrorism Units by Douglas Century - A foriegn volunteer in Isreal!

At the age of eighteen, Aaron Cohen left Beverly Hills to prove himself in the crucible of the armed forces. He was determined to be a part of Israels most elite security cadre, akin to the American Green Berets and Navy SEALs. After fifteen months of grueling training designed to break down each individual man and to rebuild him as a warrior, Cohen was offered the only post a non-Israeli can hold in the special forces. In 1996 he joined a top-secret, highly controversial unit that dispatches operatives disguised as Arabs into the Palestinian-controlled West Bank to abduct terrorist leaders and bring them to Israel for interrogation and trial.

Between 1996 and 1998, Aaron Cohen would learn Hebrew and Arabic; become an expert in urban counterterror warfare, the martial art of Krav Maga, and undercover operations; and participate in dozens of life-or-death missions. He would infiltrate a Hamas wedding to seize a wanted terrorist and pose as an American journalist to set a trap for one of the financiers behind the Dizengoff Massacre, taking him down in a brutal, hand-to-hand struggle. A propulsive, gripping read, Cohens story is a rare, fly-on-the-wall view into the shadowy world of black ops that redefines invincible strength, true danger, and inviolable security.

A foriegn volunteer in Isreal!
Mr. Cohen's gives us a savage tale of life as a foriegn volunteer in an Isreali Special Operations unit.

Inspired by his readings in Isreali military history, while studying in a Canadian military academy, Cohen was determined to volunteer. His mother was an up and coming Hollywood writer. He could have stayed home, and languished in the superficial glamour and luxury of Beverly Hills. Such a lifestyle is profoundly unthinkable to men of true character. Although only minimally proficient in Hebrew, he strove forth, going in harm's way for a foriegn land. Cohen did not venture all that way just to serve as a regular IDF soldier, he aspired to serve in a commando unit, and he achieved his goal!

If you are intrigued with Isreal and its valiant military, this is an astounding account of one man's experience in that nation's defense. I found the most striking factor to be the Spartan training methods and standards. The attrition factor in selection for Isreal's special operations units is understandably high. A tiny nation, with no considerable natural barriers against a numerically vast and implacably hostile enemy, simply must have the best possible operators in the field.

Cohen describes brutal close-combat training sessions in Krav Maga. He endured a curriculum of psychological/physical-conditioning sessions that would overwhelm many Olympic athletes, ...and most regular military personnel. He describes close-quarter combat training so thorough, that it was not unusual for trainees to fire 5000 rounds of ammunition in a day!

Here is a narrative of SERIOUS combat-training! It makes you think of the pathetic level of combat-training that is the standard in most military units today. They can learn something from this.

Serving in a counter-terrorist unit, the agents learned to emulate the enemy, for covert infiltration of Palestinian Arab communities. Naturally, for security concerns, the author generalizes some of the information, as pertaining to missions, locations, and certain skills and training.

All of this took place inside of a three year enlistment! Clearly, all things considered, it is very likely that Israel possesses the most stringently selective special-operations force in the world today.

I refuse to believe that someone who fails such a course late in the training, is "useless" to special operations. There are naturally limited openings for vacant positions in such units, but it still staggers the imagination to consider the wasted resources of turning away someone who made it very far into the training, only to fail late in the game. Naturally, in the small units described in this book, unit cohesiveness is a prime factor in mission success. Surely there must be a place for those who made it through most of the training, to find another palce in a similar unit.

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