Strategic Rifleman: Key to More Moral Warfare

Through an inverted military career, John Poole has discovered a few things that more promotable people miss. After spending 2 of his first 4 years as a combat commander, he did his last 7 as an enlisted tactics instructor. That allowed him to see why U.S. troops have always had so much trouble with counterinsurgency, and short-range combat in general. Their tactical techniques are quite simply outmoded--so unlikely to surprise a woods-wise defender as to be "premachinegun" in format. This little oversight on the part of their commanders and how to correct it forms much of the framework of Poole's work. Since retirement from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1993, Poole has has traveled extensively in both Communist and Islamist worlds and written 13 other tactics/intell. supplements. He has also conducted multiday training sessions for 41 U.S. battalions, 9 schools, and 7 special operations units. As most U.S. intelligence personnel know too little about the Eastern thought process and evolution of squad tactics, these supplements provide currently deployed GIs with a rare glimpse into their enemy's intentions. Just since 2000, Poole has gone to Russia, Mainland China (twice), North Korea, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India (3 times), Pakistan (twice), Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Sudan, Tanzania, and Venezuela. Over the course of his lifetime, he has further traversed most of the world. He has lived (or been stationed) in Mexico, Panama, Vietnam, and Japan. Between early tours in the Marine Corps (from 1969 to 1971), Poole worked as a criminal investigator for the Illinois Bureau of Investigation (IBI). After attending the State Police Academy for several months in Springfield, he worked out of the IBI's Chicago office on general criminal and drug cases.