Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life by Patrick Van Horne & Jason Riley

Author:Patrick Van Horne & Jason Riley [Van Horne, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Irish Entertainment LLC
Published: 2014-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

2. NEGATIVE PROXEMIC PULL

Suicide bombers seek centers of proxemic pull: a market, a house of worship, a medical support mission. They go where the highest number of people are.

A stark proxemic reality is that less-skilled attackers need to get close to us to harm us. This makes it critical for profilers to recognize when proxemic pulls are occurring and to be alert for these potential threats.

Insurgents also attempt to use proxemic pulls as a means to bait Americans into areas where they may be attacked. Insurgents don’t have an endless supply of equipment, munitions, or manpower. They must be more efficient in where they choose to strike. They can do this in one of two ways—either by studying our tactics, habits, and patterns to predict where we might be in the future or by doing something to draw American forces into an area where they, the enemy, are waiting. Insurgents might use several tactics to create a proxemic pull: cause a civil disturbance to force stand-by forces to deploy, emplace a decoy IED to force explosive specialists to respond, open fire on a patrol, then flee to cause the patrol to give chase. By understanding the enemy’s method of proxemic pulls, patrol leaders can use tactical cunning to think through where the enemy is trying to pull the patrol and outmaneuver the enemy instead of getting ambushed.

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