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| The Tiger's Way: A U.S. Private's Best Chance for Survival | 
 enlarge | Author: H. John Poole
Creators: Ray L. Smith, Edward Molina
Publisher: Posterity Press
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 23020
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 462
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0963869566
Dewey Decimal Number: 355
EAN: 9780963869562
ASIN: 0963869566
Publication Date: October 2003
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An excellent book for warfighters November 27, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Readers of this book will look at the Army and Marines different. While the IG and other groups says they care about soldiers the readers of this book will actually care more about the thing that matters: YOUR SOLDIERS LIVES.
Here are two things a possible buyer of this book should consider. In WWII it was thought that the Japanese soldier was born in the jungle. Nothing could be further from the truth. Japan has as much Jungle as Oklahoma. What made the difference between the Japanese and American soldier was training. Their soldiers were taught stealth, hand-to-hand fighting, and all their other combat skills. Little noted in WWII was Japan won land battles against much larger American and British Armies in 1942. Only massive allied firepower turned the tide. Second, in Korea the UN forces often used the machinegun to excess. After a night of fighting the only result would be a few dead communist soldiers. Turkish soldiers, using eastern combat methods, had dozens of dead communists in front of their positions. All were dead by knife wounds.
If this book was followed the results would be nothing but positive things for the USA. First, we would have a better trained Army and Marines that would be able to handle the stress of combat better. We would have less dead men. Second, the Army and Marines could be smaller. We would have more warfighters but less of a logistics tail. Third, we would have less technological dependence. That means a savings of money.
I admire this book. John Poole goes through the combat tables and says what this reader long suspected; we often lose more men in combat with eastern armies. The only real reason we beat German forces in WWII is they wanted to be beat by us, the Soviets were their nightmare. Iraq could have had an eastern army but it was so over controlled and regulated by 2003 that nearly any good army could have taken them.
John Poole says that our infared night vision gear is of limited use. Tanks are not a great asset to any army. Good landmines and RPGs can take out any tank. The weird thing is the US Marines nearly issued the vast store of captured RPGs from Grenada to the Marines. The DoD killed this idea. The reason is American makes superior equipment and all that rubbish...
I really liked this book. This book should be required reading for any member on the House or Senate Armed Service committees. The trouble is our modern politicians are too busy trying to make the mothers of soldiers happy with training and not concentrating on the training of the soldiers to keep them from getting killed and accomplishing the mission.
This is the second book I've read from Poole in a week. It has been sent to my old ROTC school. Perhaps a future lieutenant can take wisdom from the pages of this book.
This book should be the vangard of the change needed in our Army and Marines. We need better training. We need soldiers who can take charge of the tactical situation. We need to get rid of the top-down structure that plagues the Army and Marines in tactical situations.
I wish some good soldiers, marines, and politicians could read this book and put it into use.
Until this book is followed our Army and Marines are little better than Activated Militia.
The Tactical Sphere November 16, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
In our time, we are privy to scores of books, interviews, and op eds dedicated to the strategic sphere of military conduct. Most analysts, those types that enjoy their time on CNN, seek to explain American failures in Iraq and Afghanistan in purely general terms: lack of troops, lack of allies, lack of materials, lack of goals. And while these issues certainly deserve their proper analysis, their role in military failures are grossly exaggerated.
The truth, as the fella said, is in the details. John Poole's The Tiger's Way is concerned with just such details. Poole knows well the tactical sphere: that area where the average U.S. Army infantry private spends his time. He knows and understands the techniques used by "eastern" opponents against Western forces, and he is better at illuminating our vulnerabilities to those techniques than any author in the last 50 years. If this were simply a book on those techniques and exploits, it would be quite a triumph. But there's more.
This book focuses on why our techniques are failing, as well as how they might be tailored to fit in our current environment. Folks like Rumsfeld can talk "light, mobile, and fast forces" all they want, but without applying the dispersion techniques outlined by Poole, maneuver warfare will remain stagnant.
If you are a citizen seeking to better understand what our forces are doing on the ground, and how they might do it better, you should buy this book. If you're a soldier on the ground, you should buy two: one for yourself and one for your unit.
Revealing the secrets of the real light infantry November 12, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Another great by John Poole. Revealing the handicap of US Military at the squad level and what can be done about it.
Despite popular believe, USA dont have any real light infantry since the days of Merryll's Marauders and Carlsons Raiders. The thought the 'enemy' are just are robots that are being for humanwaves was created by US propaganda. Despite the fact that most enemies of the USA are dictatorships. Their military have some unique systems similair to Chinese parlement (bottum-up). Since these countries dont have much firepower they have to rely more on the contributions of every single soldier. A must read for a grunt to general. If you want to understand the tactics and mindset of your enemy.
A keeper August 10, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a classic. I bought one for myself and read it and then sent a copy to my son when he was stationed in Iraq. This should be a "must read" for military of all ranks and branches as well as the politicians who send them in harms way.
Officer Candidate Wilson February 23, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Very helpful. Will definitely reference this text throughout my career. I hope every soldier reads this and takes to heart the fact that it is our responsibility to be prepared, and to prepare those around us for whatever may come.
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