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For infantrymen of all ranks and counter-terrorism, close-combat, modern-battle, maneuver warfare, 4th-Generation warfare, and military-history buffs, this website is dedicated to lowering the loss of life in war.  Founded by a retired USMC lieutenant colonel, Posterity Press is an affiliate of Posterity Enterprises, a training organization dedicated to helping U.S. military and police forces to adopt advanced small-unit tactics.

Posterity Press has published eleven tactics-and-intelligence manual supplements — The Last Hundred Yards, One More Bridge to Cross, Phantom Soldier, The Tiger's Way, Tactics of the Crescent Moon, Militant Tricks, Terrorist Trail, Dragon Days, Tequila Junction, Homeland Siege and Expeditionary Eagles. So far, Posterity Enterprises has conducted multi-day training sessions for 39 battalions, 9 schools, and seven special operations units.  On request, it can provide instruction on Eastern infantry techniques, squad assault, rear-area security, and 'bottom-up training'.  All costs are based on the recipient’s ability to pay and may be covered by the Marine Corps University Foundation.  Sixty percent of all proceeds go to Mother Theresa's Missionaries of Charity, Catholic Relief and Food for the Poor.

NEW BOOK RELEASED July 1st, 2010 -

Expeditionary Eagles: Outmaneuvering the Taliban

Expeditionary Eagles shows how to be the first successful occupier of Afghanistan since Tamerlane. As this war is now more about drugs than insurgency, the book sheds some much needed light on the symbiotic relationship between al-Qaeda, the drug cartels, and elements of the Pakistani government. It also contains a very lethal way to defend an isolated outpost—without artillery and airstrikes. There’s a reason Spetsnaz could not shut down the mujahideen’s resupply/reinforcement conduits during the Soviet-Afghan War. It was because people and ordnance were being smuggled in—by tiny increments and pieces—along the same highways that brought the drug consignments out piecemeal. This nearly invisible procedure may still be occurring.


“John Poole has produced another superb work that offers insightful and well-researched guidance on . . . confronting the Taliban. Expeditionary Eagles: Outmaneuvering the Taliban should be required reading for our military and policy makers.” — Gen. Anthony C. Zinni USMC (Ret.), former head of CENTCOM

“Expeditionary Eagles offers an interesting strategic analysis of the war in Afghanistan plus, as always in John Poole’s books, innovative small-unit tactics and techniques.” — William S. Lind, father of 4th-Generation Warfare theory
 

Political Position

Posterity Press supports all elected and security establishment leaders by keeping them informed. On this country’s most divisive issue, it offers the following advice:

Young Americans often see their pro-life elders as insensitive to the “health and welfare” of a woman who has become pregnant under unfortunate circumstances. That could not be further from the truth. Those elders even worry about her mental health and spiritual welfare. Guilt trips can be as debilitating as physical injury, and we as humans are quick to blame ourselves whenever a death in the family occurs. In everyday life, many humanitarian issues are at stake. But none is more important than the fate of the unborn. There is no “middle of the road” on this issue. Either those tiny beating hearts and perfectly formed fingers are important, or they aren’t. Their owners have no control over their worldly father’s identity nor share in the responsibility for his misdeeds. They also have God as a parent. Each is a totally unique and inherently good creation of God with much to offer the world. For those still loved children of God who have already had an abortion, take heart. Many a Marine or Army leader has—through a mistake in judgment—also lost people for whom he was responsible. And he didn’t have inexperience or a poorly constructed law as his excuse. That unfortunately is the human condition, and we as humans must just try to do better next time. That next time is now.
 

“John Poole has done a wonderful and innovative job in weaving tactical lessons into a very readable and exciting set of books. I would highly recommend them to all NCOs and officers.” - Gen. Anthony C. Zinni USMC (Ret.) 

The Last Hundred Yards is "...the best book written on ground tactics in English in the last fifty years." - Bruce I. Gudmundsson (author of Stormtroop Tactics and co-author of On Infantry)

One More Bridge to Cross - “Poole puts together the ingredients of how to fight and win in the 21st Century.” - Infantry Magazine,  Fall 2003

Phantom Soldier - “This affordable book needs to be read by all combat arms soldiers, all special operators, and all generals.” - Army Magazine, December 2001

The Tiger's Way - “All of it [the book] will make you better prepared for the future fight. I recommend it to all infantrymen and infantry leaders.” - Maj.Gen. Ray L. Smith USMC (Ret.).

Tactics of the Crescent Moon - “John Poole’s well-titled Tactics of the Crescent Moon offers an absorbing nuts-and-bolts analytic study of . . . Islamic guerrilla tactics.  He begins with a fresh look at . . . Gallipoli. . . . He then goes forward in time . . . to . . . the Iran-Iraqi War, Lebanon, Israel - Palestine, Chechnya, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, and Iraq. . . . It is a book that deserves reading at all levels from private to general.”— B.Gen. Edwin H. Simmons USMC (Ret.), former Head of History & Museums Div.

Militant Tricks - “This book is a must read for anyone who has a stake in the new war.” - Leatherneck Magazine

Terrorist Trail  - “[B]ook is a chilling description of the ... threat. It’s true value ... [is] in outlining tactics and strategies to defeat today’s terrorism threat.” - Maj.Gen. John H. Admire USMC (Ret.), former commander of 1st Marine Division