Six years after terrorist attacks shocked the world, news headlines portray petty politics, backstabbing bureaucrats and a mired military. How did a small group of extremists frustrate the most powerful nation on the planet? The author, a seasoned special operations intelligence officer, answers the question. America is fighting a twenty-first-century conflict with a national security establishment that was created for the middle of the twentieth century. Examining trends in military history, the author traces America’s gradual shift toward a new national security strategy. Setting outdated war fighting concepts on their head, he proposes a solution. We can influence, capture, or if necessary kill those who would harm our people. Manhunting, a radical new form of warfare, promises to solve not only the terrorist dilemma. By adopting Manhunting doctrine, we could make warfare personal to our enemies, reverse the polarity of warfare and ensure U.S. security for the next century.
George Crawford was raised in the Ohio Valley and eastern Kansas. A retired veteran of the US Air Force, his writing draws deeply from his experiences as a leader during military operations in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Central Asia and multiple assignments around the globe.
A relative newcomer to the fiction genre, his work spans a spectrum from military technothrillers to paranormal adventure sagas. He occasionally dabbles in childrens books and poetry.
On the non-fiction circuit, Crawford has also written several professional military and technical publications, most notably his 2008 and 2009 work on "Manhunting" -- ideas that have now become reality through worldwide operations to interdict terrorists, narcotraffickers, arms proliferators and international criminals.
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