Global Warrior Averting WWIII Author:H. John Poole 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 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 thr... more »ee have been active around the world's ocean chokepoints as well. With an in-depth look at Pakistan/Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, and Thailand, this book investigates the degree of collusion between dissimilar elements. While 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 involvement at the community level. Without local security, there can be no working democracy. What if there were no expensive overseas support bases, just a myriad of semi-independent light infantry squads paying locally for what they required in the way of supplies. Their job would be to help friendly government paramilitary police to man contested outposts. Instead of occupiers, the young Americans would be foreign-aid workers in the law enforcement sector. Fully adept at small-unit maneuver, escape/evasion, evidence collection, and imparting those skills to others, the squads in each country would collectively function as enough of a force multiplier to save it.
Just to contend with the 1.2 million Chinese and North Korean special operators, this is the only way to now stabilize the Free World. Because the modus operandi of the organized criminal and revolutionary Islamist are virtually identical to those of the Communist, those squads would be suppressing all three threats without the U.S. government ever having to confront the instigating nation.
Global Warrior follows this strategic suggestion with application details. The emphasis this time in not on squad tactics, 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 fallen victim to headquarters control. This is an exciting read about the world's most pressing, yet under-discussed, challenge. Fully illustrated and referenced, it is a celebration of the American spirit.« less