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Chris Ryan, the Glossary

Colin Armstrong, (born 1961), usually known by the pen-name Chris Ryan, is a British author, television presenter, security consultant and former Special Air Service sergeant.^[1]

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Action fiction

Action fiction is a literary genre that focuses on stories that involve high-stakes, high-energy, and fast-paced events.

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Alpha Force

Alpha Force is a series of novels written by Chris Ryan, formerly of the Special Air Service.

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American Heroes Channel (formerly Military Channel and originally Discovery Wings Channel) is an American multinational pay television channel owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Andy McNab

Steven Billy Mitchell (born 28 December 1959), usually known by the pseudonym and pen-name of Andy McNab, is a novelist and former Special Air Service soldier. Chris Ryan and andy McNab are British Army personnel of the Gulf War, Recipients of the Military Medal and special Air Service soldiers.

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Army Reserve (United Kingdom)

The Army Reserve is the active-duty volunteer reserve force of the British Army.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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BBC One

BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Bravo (British TV channel)

Bravo was a British and Irish television channel owned by Living TV Group, a subsidiary of BSkyB.

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Bravo Two Zero

Bravo Two Zero was the call sign of an eight-man British Army Special Air Service (SAS) patrol, deployed into Iraq during the First Gulf War in January 1991.

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Bravo Two Zero (novel)

Bravo Two Zero is a 1993 book written under the pseudonym 'Andy McNab'.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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Cambodia

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.

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Cambodian–Vietnamese War

The Cambodian–Vietnamese War was an armed conflict between Democratic Kampuchea, controlled by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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Cassell (publisher)

Cassell is a British book publishing house, founded in 1848 by John Cassell (1817–1865), which became in the 1890s an international publishing group company.

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Chris Ryan's Strike Back

Chris Ryan's Strike Back, also known as Strike Back: Origins on Cinemax, is a six-part British television series based on the novel of the same name written by best-selling author and former soldier of the Special Air Service, Chris Ryan, and is the first series of Strike Back.

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County Durham

County Durham, officially simply Durham (/ˈdʌrəm/), is a ceremonial county in North East England.

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Derren Brown

Derren Brown (born 27 February 1971) is an English mentalist, illusionist, and writer.

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Distinguished Conduct Medal

The Distinguished Conduct Medal was a decoration established in 1854 by Queen Victoria for gallantry in the field by other ranks of the British Army.

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Elite World Cops

Elite World Cops is a television series starring former SAS soldier and author Chris Ryan.

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Flood

A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry.

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Gazette

A gazette is an official journal, a newspaper of record, or simply a newspaper.

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Geordie Sharp

Geordie Sharp is a fictional character featured in a series of military novels written by Chris Ryan.

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Gulf War

The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.

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Hookergate School

Hookergate School was a secondary school and sixth form located in High Spen in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, England.

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Hunting Chris Ryan

Hunting Chris Ryan is a documentary produced by the BBC in 2003.

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I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike

I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike, known in the PAL region as Project I.G.I. 2, is a 2003 tactical shooter video game developed by Innerloop Studios and released by Codemasters.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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Khmer Rouge

The Khmer Rouge (ខ្មែរក្រហម) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979.

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Main supply route

A main supply route (MSR) is the route or routes designated within an area of operations upon which the bulk of traffic flows in support of military operations and humanitarian operations.

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Michael Asher (explorer)

Michael Asher (born 1953) is an English desert explorer, writer, historian, deep ecologist, and educator. Chris Ryan and Michael Asher (explorer) are 21st-century British male writers, 21st-century British novelists, British Parachute Regiment soldiers and special Air Service soldiers.

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Military Medal

The Military Medal (MM) was a military decoration awarded to personnel of the British Army and other arms of the armed forces, and to personnel of other Commonwealth countries, below commissioned rank, for bravery in battle on land. Chris Ryan and military Medal are Recipients of the Military Medal.

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Muscle atrophy

Muscle atrophy is the loss of skeletal muscle mass.

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Observation post

An observation post (commonly abbreviated OP), temporary or fixed, is a position from which soldiers can watch enemy movements, to warn of approaching soldiers (such as in trench warfare), or to direct fire.

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Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)

The Parachute Regiment, colloquially known as the Paras, is the airborne and elite infantry regiment of the British Army.

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Peter Ratcliffe

Major Peter Ratcliffe, (born 1951) is a former British Army soldier and commissioned officer who served in the Parachute Regiment and the Special Air Service in a career of almost thirty years, during which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry in action during the Gulf War. Chris Ryan and Peter Ratcliffe are 20th-century non-fiction writers, British Army personnel of the Gulf War, British Parachute Regiment soldiers, British male non-fiction writers, British non-fiction writers and special Air Service soldiers.

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.

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Quick Reads Initiative

Quick Reads are a series of short books by bestselling authors and celebrities.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Regimental sergeant major

Regimental sergeant major (RSM) is an appointment that may be held by a warrant officer (WO) in the British Army, the Royal Marines, and the armies of many other Commonwealth and former Commonwealth nations.

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Regular army

A regular army is the official army of a state or country (the official armed forces), contrasting with irregular forces, such as volunteer irregular militias, private armies, mercenaries, etc.

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Rexona

Rexona is an Australian deodorant and antiperspirant brand owned by British conglomerate Unilever.

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Rowlands Gill

Rowlands Gill is a village on the north bank of the River Derwent, in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Running of the bulls

A running of the bulls (encierro, from the verb encerrar, 'to corral, to enclose'; abrivado, literally 'haste, momentum'; bous al carrer 'bulls in the street', or correbous 'bull-runner') is an event that involves running in front of a small group of bulls, typically sixFiske-Harrison, Alexander (editor), Mephisto Press, 2018 but sometimes ten or more, that have been let loose on sectioned-off streets in a town, usually as part of a summertime festival.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ryan

Also known as Code Red (books), Ryan, Chris.

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