Tactical Tracking Operations
by David Scott-Donelan
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Author: David Scott-DonelanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-11-01
ISBN: 1581600038
Number of pages: 184
Publisher: Paladin Press
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Book Review: Reliable Combat Tracking
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm prejudiced. I have served in combat as a pointman/tracker and was taught the step-by-step approach, had some minor success with it and was wounded several times as a result. You simply cannot serve as a pointman and a tracker at the same time without serious consequence. You can't have your eyes on the ground and your eyes on the bush at the same time. The Tactical Tracking Operations School method offers proven and reliable tactical tracking techniques honed from decades of combat experience in a number of conflict zones. What you get with David Scott-Donelan and this book is a remarkable introduction into the world of tactical tracking from someone with impressive credentials. This isn't esoteric hype or 'Hey! Let's go search for grandma' tracking. With Tactical Tracking Operations you're getting decades of hard fought and earned experienced confined in just several hundred pages. You won't learn to become a tactical tracker with one reading nor will you earn a badge or beret. That comes from hands-on, boots on the ground missions against armed enemies who are determined to do you harm. Then, if you're oh so fortunate-to survive you learn to refine those techniques, learn in spite of your ego, and realize the value of those like Scott-Donelan and what they bring to the table.
Perhaps that is why elite Special Operations units today employ his Tactical Tracking techniques and why it is even part of the Marines Combat Hunter program.
I have high respect for Search and Rescue teams who go out to bring back those who are injured or lost just as I do for those trackers who introduce something of real value into the mix. However, Tactical Tracking is for combat or special operations missions where the need to know which weapons work best, which cammo pattern assists the team members in the bush, and which tactics and strategies can save lives out weigh the nonsense of puffed up personalities vying for time in the limelight.
If you're looking for a book that delves into what tactical tracking is all about without the hoopla, hype or gloss then you need to add David Scott-Donelan's book to your library. It is battle born and battle bled and all you're risking here is a papercut.
Now, let me hear a loud Hoo-ah and Semper Fi for all of those honorably serving in uniform. And while we're at it, let's hear one for Scott-Donelan as well.
Summary of Tactical Tracking Operations
This manual is packed with practical lessons, on-the-ground tricks, training drills and equipment suggestions for the solo tracker on up to a multiagency tracking operation. Learn from a 30-year veteran how to find and follow tracks through any terrain; assess the age of tracks; relocate the trail after it's gone missing; foil every effort to throw off your pursuit; coordinate a four-man team while tracking armed fugitives; set up and run large tracking operations, use the latest high-tech gear to find fugitives and more.Strategy Books
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