H. John Poole

After serving as a rifle company commander for eight months in Vietnam, Poole completed his 28-year USMC career as 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 enemies and written 21 other 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 in Chicago. 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 battalions and schools, 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 able to do well on their own in the absence of orders).