Manhunting: Reversing the Polarity of Warfare

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Manhunting: Reversing the Polarity of Warfare, ISBN 1-60441-332-8^[1] a book by veteran special operations intelligence officer George A. Crawford,^[2] recommends changes to United States foreign policy and national security; specifically, revamping the traditional cold war military industrial complex, which was created to fight World War II. The book provides a plan to establish a new structure designed to wage the war on terror.

Contents 1 Table of contents 2 Description 3 Author biography 4 External links and references

[edit] Table of contents

• Manhunting as a new doctrine for combating terrorism
• Lessons learned from historic military and law enforcement operations
• Famous manhunts
  • CIA operations against terrorism
  • The hunt for Saddam Hussein and sons
  • Manuel Noriega's apprehension and rescue of Kurt Muse
  • Slobodan Milošević and Balkan war criminals
  • Usama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda
  • Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  • Mohamed Farrah Aidid
  • Japan’s Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
  • Black Hawk, Native American chief of the British Band of Sacs and Foxes
  • Geronimo, Apache medicine man
  • Pancho Villa and the Mexican Expedition
  • John Wilkes Booth and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Al Qaeda's war plans in the post-9/11 world
• Finding WMD before terrorists can use them
• Development of Precision-guided munitions, and the ability to target individual terrorists
• Analysis of historical military tactics and doctrine development for mechanized warfare, air warfare, naval warfare, information warfare and space warfare, which have become polarized toward force-on-force combat operations.
• Analysis of changes needed in doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel and facilities to implement manhunting

[edit] Description

Six years after terrorist attacks shocked the world, news headlines portray petty politics, backstabbing bureaucrats and a mired military. How did a small group of extremists frustrate the most powerful nation on the planet?

The author, a seasoned special operations intelligence officer, answers the question. America is fighting a twenty-first-century conflict with a national security establishment that was created for the middle of the twentieth century.

Examining trends in military history, the author traces America’s gradual shift toward a new national security strategy. Setting outdated war fighting concepts on their head, he proposes a solution. We can influence, capture, or if necessary kill those who would harm our people. Manhunting, a radical new form of warfare, promises to solve not only the terrorist dilemma. By adopting Manhunting doctrine, we could make warfare personal to our enemies, reverse the polarity of warfare and ensure U.S. security for the next century.

[edit] Author biography

George Crawford served over 23 years in the most sensitive, trusted positions in intelligence, special operations and ballistic missiles. His highly-decorated military career includes "boots-on-the-ground" operational experience ranging from hostile fire zones in the Balkans, Central Asia and Afghanistan to key command positions in the United States, Europe and Asia. He is a member of Military Writers Association of America, and Military Writers.com.^[3]

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