Dragon Days

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.Smith, Ray L. is the author of 'Dragon Days', published 2007 under ISBN 9780963869548 and ISBN 096386954X.