Dragon Days: Time for "Unconventional" Tactics

by Poole, H. John

• ISBN13: 9780963869548
• ISBN10: 096386954X
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-10
• Publisher: Posterity Pr

Summary

Within Dragon Days are two studies: (1) how a rising superpower may be using Islamic insurgency to screen Maoist expansion; and (2) what America's infantrymen and special operators must do to curtail either. On the surface, that superpower's goals are being met through foreign aid to developing countries; but the "corporations" involved are little more than extensions of its army. Thus, the stability of the Free World is at stake. Unfortunately, most American Marines and soldiers are prepared only for invasion. That's the purpose of Parts Two and Three of this book. Instead of projecting force into affected countries or training their armies, the U.S. military must start to deploy "foreign aid workers in the law enforcement sector." Then, by the thousands, specially trained squad-sized units could anchor widely dispersed Combined Action Platoons. Their mission would be to help indigenous police and soldiers to reestablish local security. Without collective local security, there can be no viable counterinsurgency or operating democracy. Part Two presents what American infantrymen must know about criminal investigation and police work. Part Three contains the unconventional warfare (UW) tactical techniques they must practice. Such techniques (like football plays) are new to the literature and not covered by any U.S. military manual. They would allow tiny contingents of GIs to slip away unhurt whenever cut off and surrounded. Without this new kind of training, their only hope would be massive bombardment in, and ground extraction from, a heavily populated area. Such things do little to win the hearts and minds of an indigenous population.