PAPERBACK EDITION

Tactics for Police and Military

Homeland Siege uses current enemy intelligence as a lead-in to better tactical technique. But this intelligence doesn't come from some foreign shore; it comes from the borders, highways, and cities of America - with the enemy being international organized crime. The book first shows which Hispanic and Asian gangs are controlling the wholesale distribution of drugs. Then, it provides chapters on drug route identification, hostage rescue, and collateral-damage-free defense. All three topics should interest to both military and police. The lessons of Homeland Siege will make U.S. streets safer to walk and Afghan villages easier to pacify.

Part One discusses the possibility of a foreign power's indirect assault on the American homeland. The most fragrant evidence of such an assault has been cyber, but it may well entail a crime wave. Such things are possible in 4th-Generation Warfare (4GW) - that which is fought in the political, economic, psychological, and martial arenas simultaneously. If such an attack were in progress, U.S. leaders would be hesitant to commit their Armed Forces.

Part Two discusses the extent to which U.S. military and police missions have merged over the years.

Then, Part Three offers extensively researched chapters on drug route identification, civilian-saving urban assault, and collateral-damagefree defense. They should help U.S. police to handle the next Stateside terrorist incident and U.S. service personnel to defeat the drug-funded Taliban.

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.