Book Review: "RTFM: Red Team Field Manual"

"RTFM: Red Team Field Manual" by Ben Clark is a great collection of cheat sheets on various topics. The field manual itself is a steal for only $10, sadly not available in digital form at the time of writing. It contains little to no description about it's many one-liner hacks, save a few titles. The book is command line notes on various topics, coalesced into one brief handbook, less than 100 pages, and only available in paper back, but it's something I see myself carrying around often.  I'd recommend this book to seasoned penetration testers, as some of the commands could be dangerous if you ran them without knowing what they do. Therefore, the readers should be familiar with the topics I list below to make sure this is a good book for them, as opposed to something with more explanation around the hacks. Also, don't be scared by all of the joke reviews on Amazon, as there are some good reviews out there, including this one. Overall, I give this book 6 / 10 stars, for its usefulness, but lack of context and digital form. The majority of the topics include general syntax cheat sheets, along with 2-5 command line examples to accomplish typical pen-tester tasks, such as beacon out to a remote host, exploit a target, or even just generate a needed file locally. Below are the overall categories and cheat sheets this book covers, I hope it gives you insight as to what you can expect:

*Nix
Linux Network Commands
Linux System Info
Linux Utility Commands
Linux File Commands
Linux Misc Commands
Linux "Cover Your Tracks" Commands
Linux File System Structure
Linux Files
Linux Scripting
IPTables
Update-rc.d
Chkconfig
Screen
X11
TCPDump
Native Kali Commands
pfSense
Solaris

Windows
Windows Versions
Windows Files
Startup Directories
Windows System Info Commands
Windows NET/Domain Commands
Windows Remote Commands
Windows Network Commands
Windows Utility Commands
Windows Misc Commands
PsExec
Terminal Services
WMIC
Powershell
Using Powershell to Launch Meterpreter
Windows Registry
DSQuery
Windows Scripting
Task Scheduler

Networking
Common Ports
TTL Fingerprinting
IPv4
IPv6
Cisco Commands
SNMP
Packet Capturing
DNS
VPN
Putty

Tips and Tricks
File Transfer
Open Mail Relay
Reverse Shells
Persistence
Tunneling
Google Hacking
Video Teleconferencing

Tool Syntax
Nmap
Wireshark
NetCat
VLC Streaming
SSH
Metasploit
Meterpreter
Ettercap
Mimikatz
Hping3
ARPing
Wine
Grub
Hydra
JohnTheRipper
Password Wordlist
VSSOwn
File Hashing

Web
Common User-Agent Strings
HTML
Wget
Curl
Basic Authentication Using Apache2
Automated Web Page Screenshots
SQLMap

Databases
MS-Sql
Postgres
MySQL
Oracle

Programming
Python
Scapy
Perl
REGEX Expressions
ASCII Table

Wireless
Frequency Chart
Kismet Reference
Linux Wifi Commands
Linux Bluetooth
Linux Wifi Testing