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Tactics of the Crescent Moon comes none too soon for deployed U.S. service personnel. Little, if any, of their battlefield intelligence has been tactically interpreted. U.S. analysts are generally more interested in the enemy’s strategic or technological capabilities. Even if those analysts did want to tactically assess the information, most lack the infantry and historical background to do so. This book fills that void. It reveals—for the first time in any detail—the most common small-unit maneuvers of the Iraqi and Afghan resistance fighters. Its author is a retired infantryman and recognized authority on guerrilla warfare. He has traveled the world extensively and still trains active-duty U.S. units.

Tactics of the Crescent Moon could save many lives (if not turn the tide of war) in the Middle East. It is a heavily researched, well-illustrated, and spell-binding account of how Muslim militants fight. While the book delves mainly into their tactical method, it also uncovers their cultural orientation. This nail-biting nonfiction covers events as recent as 15 September 2004..
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The Tiger's Way: A U.S. Private’s Best Chance for Survival is not just fun reading for novice riflemen; it is mission-essential information for all ranks and job descriptions The U.S. military lost on the ground to Eastern guerrillas 30 years ago, and its tactics haven’t significantly changed. The Tiger’s Way shows how to reverse this trend at a most opportune time. Without better tactical technique at the individual and small-unit level, U.S. forces cannot project minimal force. Without minimal force, they cannot win the hearts and minds of the people. Without winning the hearts and minds of the people, they cannot win a guerrilla war. The Tiger’s Way reveals—for the first time—the state of the art in technique for every category of short-range combat. It does so through 100 illustrations, 1600 endnotes, and 31 battledrills.

But the book will also help U.S. forces to suffer fewer casualties in a total war. As Western weapons systems have become more lethal, Eastern armies have turned to tiny, surprise-oriented maneuver elements. Most now give their lowest ranks both conventional and unconventional abilities. Until the U.S. military follows suit, its nonrates will have less field skill, initiative, and tactical-decision-making experience than their Eastern counterparts. That means they will be at a decided disadvantage in any one-on-one encounter and die unnecessarily every time their firepower fails. It also means that their commanders will have trouble winning a "4th generation" war. The Tiger’s Way will have a profound effect on how foreign war and homeland security are conducted in the future..
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Militant Tricks gauges America's progress in Iraq and Afghanistan from a unique standpoint (that of East-Asian battlefield deception). As both countries were part of the Mongol Empire for over 200 years, they are a breeding ground for every sort of ancient Chinese trick (any one of the famous 36 Stratagems.) In combination, those stratagems can make a losing adversary think he is winning. They have done so to America before. To see past the militant Muslim's false face, one must look for the hidden intent behind his every initiative, whether martial or otherwise. Between September 2004 and September 2005, this book does just that for both theaters of war. For some readers, it will serve as an intelligence source and be read a few paragraphs at a time. For others, it will provide an in-depth solution to the enemy's so-far-successful formula and be read cover to cover. Militant Tricks reveals information about the enemy active-duty Americans seldom see--that which is contained in the regional media and literature. When properly interpreted by a student of Eastern tactics and mindset (the author), that information may shed enough light on ongoing events for America to still win both wars..
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Parts One and Two of "Tequila Junction" detail a foreign power's hidden assault on the Americas While the assault's objective is political, much of its support comes through local commodity trading (mostly in drugs). That makes it a well-veiled variant of 4th-Generation Warfare (that which is fought in the political, economic, psychological, and martial arenas simultaneously). Undermining this assault before it can too drastically influence the heartland will take deploying lone U.S. infantry squads to isolated Combined Action Platoons (those shared with host-country police and soldiers) and patrol bases in Colombia, Panama, and possibly even Mexico. Part Three has the unconventional warfare techniques that the U.S. squads will need to survive many times their number of drug traffickers and narco-guerrillas. These techniques have been derived from the counterinsurgency methods of the Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Iranian armies (those with the most cultural predisposition toward 4GW). "Tequila Junction" is the first narco-counterinsurgency manual to be published in the U.S., so its proposals could help to turn the tide in Afghanistan..
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Phantom Soldier: The Enemy’s Answer to U.S. Firepower may be the best treatise on Oriental warfare ever produced in the West. Well researched and illustrated, it sheds new light on what an Eastern infantry unit can do in combat: (1) alternate between guerrilla, mobile, and positional warfare; (2) use “ordinary forces” to engage and “extraordinary forces” to beat an opponent; and then (3) run away when fighting holds no more strategic import. While what occurred in history does not change, one’s perception of it does — as he comes to better understand his former adversary. Well versed in the Asian arts of deception and delay, the author explains in detail what really occurred at Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, the Chosin Reservoir, Hue City, and other Vietnam battlefields. It would seem that former adversaries have used strategic retreat and tactical withdrawal not only to save their soldiers, but also to undermine U.S. resolve. By revealing how Eastern soldiers could hold their own without resupply, tanks, or air support, Phantom Soldier shows what U.S. infantrymen must do to survive the more lethal weaponry of the 21st century. This is must reading for any combat leader or concerned citizen..
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Within Dragon Days are two studies: (1) how a rising superpower may be hiding its Maoist expansion behind Islamic insurgency; and (2) what America's armed forces must do to curtail either. Ostensibly, that power also provides foreign aid to the regions affected. But, the "corporations" involved are little more than extensions of its army. Thus, much of the Free World may be at risk. The U.S. military is ill-prepared for so subtle and widespread a confrontation. Instead of blatantly occupying countries or training their armies, it must start to deploy tiny teams of "foreign-aid workers in the law enforcement sector." Then, by the thousands, specially trained U.S. infantry and special-operations squads could anchor widely dispersed "Combined Action Platoons." Their mission would be to help sister squads of indigenous police and soldiers to reestablish local security. Without that local security in contested areas, there can be no viable counterinsurgency effort or operating democracy. Part Two of the book shows what participating GIs must know about criminal investigative procedure. Part Three contains the unconventional warfare (UW) "tactical techniques" (like football plays) they will need. The latter are new to the literature and not covered by any U.S. manual. They should allow tiny contingents of Americans to slip away unhurt whenever they get cut off or surrounded. Without this new capability, their only hope would be massive bombardment in, or forceful extraction from, a heavily populated area. Such things do little to win the hearts and minds of a population. This book provides the training and operations blueprint for winning an unconventionally fought world war. It also points to a hidden adversary..
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Terrorist Trail, isbn 0963869590, is the latest of seven U.S. tactics manual supplements from Posterity Press. Covering events as recent as 26 August 2006, it contains valuable information about the militant Muslim's so-far-successful formula. While delving into the backgrounds of jihadists entering Iraq, it stumbles upon too many Chinese and too much cooperation between Sunni and Shiite extremists in Africa. While al-Qaeda has been shipping fighters via Somalia to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Kenya/Tanzania, Iran-sponsored Hezbollah has been bringing them into the Middle East via Sudan. This book shows how to slow this flow of jihadists into Baghdad. It also shows how to "mantrack" the ones already there. As a bonus, it describes how the best counterguerrilla force to be so far produced by the West operated. That was not the British in Malaysia; it was Rhodesia's Selous Scouts. This is a book not to be missed by those who have come to realize that the problems in Iraq and Afghanistan are part of a global insurgency..
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An elegantly designed, beautifully composed volume of personal letters from famous American men and women that celebrates the American Experience and illuminates the rich history of some of America’s most storied families.

Posterity is at once an epistolary chronicle of America and a fascinating glimpse into the hearts and minds of some of history’s most admired figures. Spanning more than three centuries, these letters contain enduring lessons in life and love, character and compassion that will surprise and enlighten.

Included here are letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter, warning her of the evils of debt; General Patton on D-Day to his son, a cadet at West Point, about what it means to be a good soldier; W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter about character beneath the color of skin; Oscar Hammerstein about why, after all his success, he doesn’t stop working; Woody Guthrie from a New Jersey asylum to nine-year-old Arlo about universal human frailty; sixty-five-year-old Laura Ingalls Wilder’s train of thought about her pioneer childhood; Eleanor Roosevelt chastising her grown son for his Christmas plans; and Groucho Marx as a dog to his twenty-five-year-old son.

With letters that span more than three centuries of American history, Posterity is a fascinating glimpse into the thoughts, wisdom, and family lives of those whose public accomplishments have touched us all. Here are renowned Americans in their own words and in their own times, seen as they were seen by their children. Here are our great Americans as mothers and fathers.

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One More Bridge to Cross: Lowering the Cost of War shows American units how to take (and cause) fewer casualties in battle. Minimal force can be best projected by highly trained and semi-independent squad-sized units. One U.S. service branch officially shifted over to "maneuver" from "attrition" warfare in the mid-eighties, but none have as yet been willing/able to decentralize control enough to use it at the squad level. Until they do, lives will be lost unnecessarily..
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