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USASOCIn December 2001 at the Special OperationsMedical Association meeting in Tampa(www.soma.org), the USASOC surgeon's office presenteda day of lectures and discussions on unconventionalwarfare medicine entitled: "MedicalUnconventional Warfare Doctrine for the 21stCentury: Guerrilla & Resistance Medicine &Hospitals."Although we had conceived doing thismany months before 11 September 2001, it wasright on target and sort of eerie to be talking on thissubject at the same time that Special Forces teamswere DOING unconventional warfare medicine onthe ground for the first time in a long time. I wouldlike to thank all of the staff from my office thathelped write and presented the various briefs. Thebriefings and those who gave them were:1. Introduction--Mission For the Day: New Ideas,New Medical Doctrine for the 21st Century. COLWarner D. Farr2. Those Who Cared Before Us: HistoricalExamples of Guerrilla Medicine in the UnclassifiedLiterature. COL Warner D. Farr3. U.S. Guerrilla Warfare Doctrine 1941-2000:From FM 31-21 1951 to Draft FM 3.05.200 1999.MAJ Hal Abner4. U.S. Medical Guerrilla Warfare Doctrine1941-2000: From "G" Hospitals to BlackHelicopters. MAJ Mitch Meyers5. Emerging 21st Century U.S.Unconventional Warfare Doctrine: Urban, Joint, andCoalition. MAJ Hal Abner6. Medical Personnel in UnconventionalWarfare: What! Who, Me? COL Kevin Keenan7. Emerging Principles Outside the Ordinary:Surrogates, Allies, and National Infrastructure. Mr.David PassaroRocky Farr, MDCOL, USACommand SurgeonI have always thought it important to knowour roots so a recommended reading list of unconventionalwarfare, most all with an emphasis on itsmedicine is:1. Chapman, F. Spencer. The Jungle is Neutral.London. 1949.2. Conboy, Kenneth and Morrison, James. TheCIA's Secret War in Tibet. University Press ofKansas. 2002.3. Dragic, Djordje Dr. Partisan Hospitals inYugoslavia. Vojnoizdavacki Zavod.1965.4. Evanhow, Ed. Dark Moon. Naval InstitutePress.1995.5. Grose, Peter. Operation Rollback. HoughtonMifflin Company. 2000.6. Hoyt, Edwin P. Guerilla. MacMillan PublishingCo., Inc. 1981.7. Moss, Robert. The War for the Cities. Coward,McCann & Geoghegan, Inc. 1972.8. Rogers, Linday. Guerilla Surgeon. CollinsClear-Type Press: London and Glasgow.1957.9. Stahl, Bob. You're No Good To Me Dead. NavalInstitute Press. 1995.10. Street, Brian Jeffrey. The Parachute Ward. T.H.Best Printing Company Limited.1987.11. Temchin, Michael. The Witch Doctor.Holocaust Library.1983.Volume 2, Edition 2 / Spring 02 5