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 enlarge | Author: H. John Poole
Creators: Ray L. Smith, Michael Leahy
Publisher: Posterity Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 364
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 0963869515
Dewey Decimal Number: 355
EAN: 9780963869517
ASIN: 0963869515
Publication Date: August 22, 2008
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Tequila Junction by H. John Poole: Outstanding Resource, Informative and Forward Thinking September 27, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just finished reading the latest book by John Poole, "Tequila Junction 4th-Generation Counterinsurgency." The book is outstanding. I could not put it down. It's not a novel, but if your interest or responsibility is security, it reads like one. Tequila Junction is, a lesson on current world events including intelligence gathered on non-Muslim threats to America from Central and South America and their links to China. The first part of the book discusses this intelligence and the possibility of politically oriented and drug funded threats to the United States. Yes back to drugs funding political oriented cartels, gangs or maras (MS13, M18 and others) as well as terrorist groups all cooperating in this effort. Poole talks of the United states narrow focus on Al-Qaeda has had its attention diverted from this part of the world. "Latin America provides the perfect example of what can happen from to narrow a focus. Because so little al-Qaeda activity there, U.S. leaders have all but ignored a potential catastrophe at their doorstep. In a place where the two biggest threats to personal freedom combine (drugs and revolution), they have settled for another of their patented "top-down" solutions. Such a solution will have little chance where the source of the problem has yet to be determined." A reader can easily see based on Americas past and current craving for drugs where the implications at home to security and the law enforcement community are obvious if these threats are allowed to go undisputed.
In the second part of the book, Poole describes the unconventional tactics necessary, the military will need in counterinsurgency efforts. These unconventional methods are indirect and involve methods related to police problem solving and indirect conflict. Poole describes 4GW methods of recognizing the gangs and maras as part of the solution-that it is more important to "convert ones foe than to kill him." He talks about, "wars of the future must be won by some other way than expert snipers and pinpoint bombing. The name of the game is no longer to kill as many foes as possible, but rather to sway the allegiance of as many as possible." This is related to law enforcement methods utilized today that are paramount to forming community partnerships and winning community members over in an effort to curtail crime and solve crime problems here at home. Poole discusses these links between law enforcement and military efforts in a way that is easy to understand.
In the latter parts of the book Poole describes methods to use and how to implement these methods effectively. He talks of leadership and the importance of front line personnel being able to think and make decisions on their own based on the overall mission of winning foes over. The book in its appendix titled "Bottom-up Training" describes better training methods to prepare those whose job it is to solve these serious problems at home and abroad.
Those in Law Enforcement and Homeland Security should read this book. The implications from abroad have in the past and currently effect the climate on the streets here at home. Understanding yourself and the adversary are key to success, our efforts will be greatly enhanced by the information contained in this outstanding resource Tequila Junction.
Tequila Junction; Bar Fight in the Americas September 10, 2008
Tequila Junction lays bear the insidious threat to obliterate the Americas in a rip tide of crime, drugs, gangs, and terrorism. Tequila Junction is a book to be read but not forgotten; doing so means further peril. Just as the events of 911 could have been mitigated or preempted if we heeded the indicators and warnings, so too we need to heed the message and lessons of Tequila Junction. The "bad guys" are smart and no amount of technology will overcome that fact. Instead Tequila Junction suggests "unconventional" tactics and techniques to mentally and physically bludgeon adversaries such as nacro-terrorists, narco-insurgents, and other irregular evil doers. Make no mistake Tequila Junction is about fourth generation warfare and small unit tactics. Globalization dramatically impacts crime and terrorism. Drug deals are co-mingle terrorism and gangs. Poole unmasks the challenges that face us in the Americas at the hands of Muslim extremists and communists. Poole unabashedly pins the tail on the Chinese and contends countries like Cuba are or have become full fledged Chinese surrogates. The Chinese are masterfully using crime, gangs, and Muslim extremism as a cover for their expanding activites. Tequila Junction literally warns of a "bar fight" in the Americas that portends to spill over into our streets.
Drugs, US Security, and Tactics August 31, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
LtCol Poole's books have been with me on my military deployments and contract security assignments overseas. They have all become intelligence and tactical studies that have given me insights and ideas on how to do my job more effectively. John Poole with Tequila Junction gives information for military and law enforcemnt working in South/Central America and Mexico. The information in his latest work gives the information needed that commanders, military manuals and intell reports don't say or synthesize for use on the ground. Once again a must have book.
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