The machinegun"s terrible WWI toll should have made all nations" small-unit tactics more surprise-oriented, but U.S. squads are still stuck with firepower-and-control-enhancing maneuvers. Until their parent units are allowed to develop a few of the less predictable (nonstandardized) kind, U.S. grunts and special operators must depend on history for better technique. "Gung Ho!" contains highly advanced (but then quickly forgotten) formations and movements from their own history. The most action-packed of all the Posterity Press titles, it first shows how the fire team concept was copied from the Chinese by Lt.Col. Carlson. Then it follows his Marine Raiders (and their infantry successors) through some of the heaviest fighting of WWII and Vietnam. While many of their buddy and fire team "plays" are no longer in use, they should be. Without them, today"s electronics-draped riflemen have little chance of secretly assaulting any defender. The Pentagon"s new plan to use tiny groups of GIs as force multipliers throughout Africa will not work without this kind of light-infantry expertise. While Carlson"s Raiders were conducting Maneuver Warfare at the squad level on Guadalcanal, America"s most elite special operators still cannot. 4th Raider Bn. (also Maoist in format) discovered how line infantry units needed no tanks, airstrikes, or artillery to take advanced strongpoint matrices. Its redesignation--2nd Bn., 4th Marines--did so at the Sugar Loaf Complex on Okinawa. Only necessary was a staggered row of fire teams "working together" from within parallel lanes. With 111 illustrations and many firsthand accounts, this book will be hard to put down.