The Tiger's Way A U.S. Private's Best Chance for Survival

This book is not just fun reading for determined riflemen, but vital self-defense info. for all security ranks and jobs. The Pentagon lost on the ground 40 years ago, and its squad tactics haven't changed much. Herein lie more advanced techniques for every category of short-range combat. They will permit better small-unit maneuvers (and fewer losses) for every intensity of combat. As Western ordnance turned more lethal, Eastern armies came to rely on tiny semi-autonomous elements. Most provide every rifleman with guerrilla training. Until the Pentagon follows suit, its own infantry enlistees will have less field skill, initiative, and decision-making experience than their Communist counterparts. In any close encounter, they will die unnecessarily and their commanders too often fail to win.

After serving as a rifle company commander for eight months in Vietnam, Poole finished up his 28-year USMC career as the SNCOIC of the 3rd Marine Division Squad Leaders School on Okinawa in 1993. Since that time, he has researched the small-unit tactics of America’s various enemies and written 19 tactics/intel. manual supplements. He has been to Communist China (twice), North Korea, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Venezuela, Pakistan (twice), Bangladesh, Malaysia, Iran, Lebanon, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa, Morocco, and Russia. Between early tours in the Marine Corps (from 1969 to 1971), he served as a criminal investigator with the Illinois Bureau of Investigation. Poole is one of the very few living Americans with an extensive enough background to know how to fix the ongoing tactical shortfall within the U.S. military. After some 60 multi-day training sessions at different active-duty units, he has developed, tested, and refined its solution (through supplementary “bottom-up” instruction). He has also become adept at the now virtually lost art of field training light infantrymen (those who are able do well on their own in the absence of orders).