SOFTCOVER EDITION

With more worries at home, many Americans want to end all U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Global Warrior: Averting WWIII proves even more involvement is now necessary, but of a different kind. Since 9/11, the United States has been under subliminal attack from three foreign elements: Islamist, Communist, and criminal. All three have also been active around the world's great ocean chokepoints. With an in-depth look at Pakistan/Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, and Thailand, this book investigates the level of collusion of those foreign elements.

While certainly significant, this expanding threat need not metastasize into a global conflagration. With a different kind of expeditionary presence, the Pentagon could prevent any escalation. Killing figurehead leaders with drone missiles is not the answer. The remedy is in more widespread community involvement. Without local security, there can be no working democracy. What if there were no expensive overseas support bases, just a myriad of semi-independent squads paying locally for what they need? Their job would be to help man friendly government police/paramilitary outposts in contested regions.

Instead of foreign occupiers, the young Americans would be foreign-aid workers in the law enforcement sector. Just to contend with the 1.2 million Chinese and North Korean special operators, this is the only way. Because the organized criminal and revolutionary Islamist use an almost identical modus operandi, those squads would be suppressing all three threats without ever having to name the sponsoring nation.

Global Warrior follows this strategic suggestion with application details. The emphasis is not on squad tactics this time, but rather on individual tactics. To form better teams and squads, one must first have more surprise-oriented riflemen. That's why this book has chapters on advanced infantryman and policeman tactics. American eighteen-year-olds have always had the potential for so challenging a mission, but that potential has too often taken a back seat to headquarters control. This is an exciting read about the world's most pressing, yet under-discussed, problem. Fully illustrated and referenced, it is a celebration of the American spirit.

About the Author
After almost 28 years as a commissioned or non-commissioned infantry officer, John Poole retired from the United States Marine Corps in 1993. On active duty, he studied small-unit tactics for ten years.While at AITC, he developed, taught, and refined courses of instruction on maneuver warfare, land navigation, fire support coordination, call for fire, adjust fire, close air support, M203 grenade launcher, movement to contact, daylight attack, night attack, infiltration, defense, offensive Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT), defensive MOUT, NBC defense, and leadership. While with CSLC, he further refined the same periods of instruction and developed others on patrolling.

He has completed all of the correspondence school requirements for the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Naval War College, and Marine Corps Warfighting Skills Program. He is a graduate of the Camp Lejeune Instructional Management Course, the 2nd Marine Division Skill Leaders in Advanced Marksmanship (SLAM) Course, the East Coast School of Infantry Platoon Sergeants' Course, the Combat Squad Leader's Course (CSLC) and five trips to the Orient.

Since retirement, he has researched the small-unit tactics of other nations, traveled extensively behind enemy lines, and written eleven tactics and intelligence manual supplements. He has also conducted multi-day training sessions for 39 battalions, eight schools, and five Special Operations units on how to conduct 4th-Generation Warfare at the small-unit level.