Military Police contains information about military police functions in maneuver and mobility support, area security, law and order, internment/resettlement, and police intelligence operations.
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Warrior Police: Rolling With America's Military Police in the World's Trouble Spots, by Gordon Cucullu and Chris Fontana, St. Martin's Press, 2012. Warrior Police: Rolling With America's Military Police in the World's Trouble Spots is a book that every member of the Military Police Corps should not only read, but also own—and share with family and friends. If you've ever tried to explain to civilians (or even fellow Soldiers) what it is that military police do, you've probably experienced your fair share of frustration and lame jokes. Well, this book will do the explaining for you. It also serves as a tribute—in the form of gritty reporting—to the men and women who wear the crossed pistols and rarely receive the accolades they deserve. Based on extensive embeds in Iraq and Afghanistan, this book covers an amazing amount of (sandy) ground. The always grueling, frequently heroic combat sequences—from the defense of posts betrayed by allies to convoy rescues conducted in the spirit of old frontier cavalry flms—may represent the highlights for general readers, but military police veterans will treasure the sharp depictions of the wide range of Corps functions—from the handling of prisoners to the little-known lifesaving work of dog handlers involved in special operations. Coauthored by Army veteran Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu (Retired) and terrorism expert Chris Fontana, Warrior Police: Rolling With America's Military Police in the World's Trouble Spots benefts from Cucullu's combat experience and grasp of Army complexities and Fontana's knack for clarifying issues that Soldiers often take for granted—with the key being the authors' lengthy embeds in our recent wars. The result is an honest, tough-minded book that is easy to read and hard to forget. Accounts of noncommissioned offcers and junior enlisted personnel comprise most of the book, and depictions range 36 from the risks of ill-conceived patrols, through the challenges of training host nation personnel, to combat actions so intense that few infantry Soldiers experience the equivalent. It turns out that some of the toughest military police are females—including one noncommissioned offcer whose guts and decisiveness when facing a convoy ambush saved many friendly lives and resulted in a very bad day for the terrorists. And how many other books about our military forces capture the dysfunction that can occur when a new commander arrives during the middle of an operation or when two strongwilled offcers disagree about something? Warrior Police: Rolling With America's Military Police in the World's Trouble Spots nails those "inside" situations and more. Through revealing tactical vignettes (many of which should be taught in military police training courses), the book addresses strategic considerations—with a disheartening account of the scrubbing of essential military police brigades from the troop list for the invasion of Iraq and a description of the long-term consequences of occupying a foreign capital without troops who are versed in the complex skills of law enforcement in a confict zone. Apart from the shameful lack of an occupation plan, the biggest defciency in those early days in Baghdad was the lack of military police. Finally, a confession: Despite having served in the Army for more than 2 decades (as an enlisted man and an offcer) myself, I did not fully appreciate the broad range of military police capabilities until I read this book. After you have read it, reread it, and shared it with your family and friends, you might also want to pass it along to that grunt down the hall who's always yelling, "Hoo-ah!" He just might learn something about the many faces of heroism. Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters (Retired), Fox News strategic analyst and author of Cain at Gettysburg. MILITARY POLICE . 19-13-1