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4th Generation Counterinsurgency
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With U.S. citizens monitoring events in South Asia, a well-veiled threat has emerged much closer to home.

• Parts One and Two describes a non-Muslim nation's assault on the Americas. While the assault's objective has been political, it cleverly supports itself through local commodity trading (mostly in drugs) which makes it a highly deceptive variant of 4th-Generation Warfare. Undermining this assault before it can drastically affect the Heartland will involve deploying lone U.S. infantry squads to Combined Action Platoons (those shared with host-country police and soldiers) and patrol bases in Colombia, Panama, and possibly Mexico.
  
  
• Part Three covers the unconventional warfare techniques U.S. squads will need to survive. These techniques have been derived from the counterinsurgency methods of the Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Iranians; armies with the most cultural predisposition toward 4GW.

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.