{"id":18458,"date":"2021-06-01T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/01\/how-william-fairbairn-created-the-modern-swat-team-in-warlord-era-shanghai\/"},"modified":"2021-06-01T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T12:00:13","slug":"how-william-fairbairn-created-the-modern-swat-team-in-warlord-era-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/01\/how-william-fairbairn-created-the-modern-swat-team-in-warlord-era-shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"How William Fairbairn Created the Modern SWAT Team in Warlord Era Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bzIdO1VEbFk?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Kickstarter for my new book, &#8220;Pistols of the Warlords&#8221; is live here:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/pistols-of-the-warlords?ref=6p67mz<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/pistols-of-the-warlords?ref=6p67mz<br<\/a> \/><br \/>William E. Fairbairn is best know for his work with Eric Sykes and their &#8220;&#8221;Commando&#8221; knife design during World War Two. However, Fairbairn spent some 33 years in the Shanghai Municipal Police, working his way up from a beat constable to Assistant Commissioner. There he was responsible for the SMPD adopting truly forward-thinking fighting methods, and he essentially invented the modern SWAT team (the &#8220;Reserve Unit&#8221;, which Fairbairn led for 10 years). He combined expertise in formal marksmanship, instinctive practical shooting, and hand-to-hand combat schools (including jiu-jitsu and judo) into a comprehensive training program like no other on earth at the time. <\/p>\n<p>Book references:<br \/>The World&#8217;s First SWAT Team, by Leroy Thompson:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2TrYiNv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2TrYiNv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gentleman &#038; Warrior, by Peter Robins:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3vuODn9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3vuODn9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kickstarter for my new book, &#8220;Pistols of the Warlords&#8221; is live here:https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/pistols-of-the-warlords?ref=6p67mzWilliam E. Fairbairn is best know for his work with Eric Sykes and their &#8220;&#8221;Commando&#8221; knife design during World War Two. However, Fairbairn spent some 33 years in the Shanghai Municipal Police, working his way up from a beat constable to Assistant Commissioner.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/01\/how-william-fairbairn-created-the-modern-swat-team-in-warlord-era-shanghai\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How William Fairbairn Created the Modern SWAT Team in Warlord Era Shanghai<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}