Terrorist Trail: Backtracking the Foreign Fighter. This item is unavailable.Terrorist Trail: Backtracking the Foreign Fighter

After 28 years of commissioned and noncommissioned infantry service, John Poole retired from the United States Marine Corps in April 1993. While on active duty, he studied small-unit tactics for nine years. In the 13 years since retirement, John Poole has researched the small-unit tactics of other nations and written six other books tactics manual supplements. As of September 2006, John Poole had conducted multiday training sessions (on how to conduct 4th-Generation Warfare at the small-unit level) for 38 Marine battalions, nine Marine schools, and seven special-operations units from all four U.S. service branches. He has been stationed twice each in South Vietnam and Okinawa. He has visited Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, North Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Tibet, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Russia, East Germany, West Germany, Morocco, Israel (to include the West Bank), Turkey, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, and Sudan.