Benjamin Cole Books

This is a reprint of a rare drill book from the Royal Armoury library in Leeds. It is a fully illustrated manual, with 96 plates and accompanying text explaining the movements and the orders needed to execute them. The manual covers saluting in no less than 15 plates. Manual exercise is the drill for the rank and file, and a sequence of no less than 48 plates show musket drill in detail. Every single movement in musket drill is covered, and so the plates show loading and priming the musket step by step. Other plates show handing the weapon on the parade square and on the field (including the archaic club your firelock command). Subsequent plates show the drill for fixing bayonets and for presenting the bayonet to the enemy as well as on the square. This section ends with the drills for unfixing bayonets, and shouldering arms. The final section of the book gives the drills for small sword, and nine plates cover the guard, thrust, tierce and pass in tierce. This book is invaluable to historians of the British Army, of firearms and side arms, and is faithfully reproduced from the original copy held at the Royal Armouries.

The book delves into the evolution of terrorism, particularly focusing on the rise of CBRN threats and the implications of the September 11 attacks. It assesses the ongoing risks and countermeasures in the post-9/11 era, emphasizing that terrorism remains a persistent aspect of global politics. Benjamin Cole argues for a nuanced approach to counter-terrorism that incorporates intelligence, political understanding, and the motivations of terrorist groups, highlighting the complexities of combating this enduring threat.

This text examines the new style of terrorism by small groups, cults, even individuals with access to weapons of mass destruction. These groups and individuals are typified by, for example, the Aum cult in Tokyo or the action of Timothy McVeigh.