Synopses & Reviews
Within Dragon Days are two studies: (1) how a rising superpower may be encouraging various Islamic insurgencies to screen its own Maoist expansion; and (2) what America must do to curtail either. Ostensibly, that power also provides foreign aid to the affected countries. But, the corporations involved are little more than extensions of its army. Thus, those countries may be at severe risk. The U.S. military is ill-prepared for so subtle a confrontation. Instead of occupying such countries or training their armies, those forces must start to deploy foreign aid workers in the law enforcement sector. Then, by the thousands, specially trained squad-sized units could anchor widely dispersed Combined Action Platoons. Their mission would be to help indigenous police and soldiers to reestablish local security. Without that security, there can be no viable counterinsurgency or operating democracy. Part Two of this book shows what U.S. infantrymen must know about criminal investigative procedure. Part Three contains some of the tactical techniques of unconventional warfare (UW). The latter are new to the literature and not covered by any U.S. military manual. They would allow tiny contingents of GIs to slip away unhurt whenever cut off and surrounded. Without this new kind of training, their only hope would be massive bombardment in, and 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 foe.
Synopsis
Here's one for America's finest- her infantrymen and special operators When cut off and surrounded in Iraq or Aghanistan, they could fight and escape like guerrillas. For the first time in America, there's an unconventional warfare tactical techniques manual that has been developed specifically for them. It's called Dragon Days: Time for 'Unconventional' Tactics. Through 162 illustrations and many examples, the author of The Last Hundred Yards explains how a tiny U.S. contingent could fend for itself when all else has failed. Retired Marine Maj.Gen. Ray E-Tool Smith agai n writes the foreword and highly recommends Dragon Days to all infantrymen and special operators. Retired Marine Gen. Anthony C. Zinni (the former head of CENTCOM) calls it another brilliant manual by an author with expertise in unconventional warfare. Covering events as recent as September 2007, Part One of Dragon Days additionally discusses the extent to which the Communist Chinese may be supporting or influencing the Islamic militants of South Asia.