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Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading commandos. If anyone would like to add anything to the site, contact me. Commando is based on a storyline and screenplay by american screenwriters steven e. The fiction revolves around a nsg commando captain virat and his love interest modern girl riya. Commando, military unitroughly equivalent to an infantry battalionconsisting of men especially trained to employ guerrillalike shock tactics ranging from handtohand combat to hitandrun raids. Honour it is a point of honour to never give up and always bring out the best in ourselves. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two.
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