Afrique: A Warning for America - Tapa blanda

Afrique is mostly about helping the 54 countries in Africa, but it could also save America. All within her current deluge of internal problems cannot be self-inflicted, but many still believe: (1) al-Qaeda and ISIS are her only foes; (2) her intelligence agencies see every threat coming; and (3) her military is the best in the world at all things. What has really been happening inside the U.S. will only become apparent though a detailed look at the extent of foreign subversion in Africa. Not only have Muslim expansionists been successful there, but also those from the People's Republic of China (PRC). After detailing their progress, Afrique talks about how the U.S. military could more effectively reverse it. Then, it briefly addresses similar incursions on U.S. soil.

Heavily illustrated and footnoted, this book contains a spellbinding account of how China has come to economically and then politically dominate much of the Dark Continent. But, not all of this PRC influence has been peaceful. Within the eastern border of the Chinese-supported Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the genocide against Tutsis from 1994 Rwanda is still going on. Between 1998 and 2008, some 5.4 million DRC citizens lost their lives to “inter-factional fighting.” Since 2009 within the DRC's northeastern quadrant alone, an additional 45,000 human beings have expired every month from unnatural causes. U.S. administrations have done far too little to stop this senseless slaughter, and the downward spiral in Africa as a whole. A more realistic approach to Africa could only result in more U.S. security.

Through an inverted military career, H. John Poole has discovered a few things that more promotable people miss. After spending two of his first four years as a combat commander, he did his last seven as an enlisted tactics instructor. That allowed him to see why U.S. troops have always had so much trouble with counterinsurgency, and short-range combat in general. Their tactical techniques are quite simply outmoded. Those techniques are so unlikely to surprise any foe as to be "premachinegun" in format. This little oversight on the part of their commanders and how to correct it form much of the framework for Poole's work. Since retirement from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1993, he has has traveled extensively in both Communist and Islamist worlds and written 15 other tactics/intelligence supplements. He has also conducted multiday training sessions for 41 U.S. battalions, 9 schools, and 7 special operations units on how to develop advanced infantry technique. As most U.S. intelligence personnel know too little about the Eastern thought process and evolution of squad tactics, these supplements provide currently deployed GIs with a rare glimpse into their enemy's intentions. Since 2000, Poole has gone to Russia, Mainland China (twice), North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India (three times), Pakistan (twice), Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Sudan, Tanzania, and Venezuela. Over the course of his lifetime, he has further traveled throughout most of the world. He has been in six African nations: Morocco, Egypt, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, and South Africa. Between early tours in the Marine Corps (from 1969 to 1971), Poole worked as a criminal investigator for the Illinois Bureau of Investigation (IBI). After attending the State Police Academy for several months in Springfield, he worked out of the IBI's Chicago office on general criminal and drug cases.