Trackers Are Trendy Once More -- Strategy PageAugust 8, 2010: The British Army has hired a Canadian professional tracker, Terry Grant, to teach troops how to use his stalking skills to detect IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices, mainly roadside bombs) and the signs (spoor, the signs people leave on the ground as they move) of enemy troops. This is an ancient skill among professional soldiers, that tends to atrophy in peacetime, and become urgent again in wartime. Terry Grant has become famous with his TV show, Mantracker, where he hunts down people in the wilderness. Grant has long been called upon to find people who were missing in rural areas. The British army noted this and made the connection with combat operations.
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My Comment: Two of my Russian cousins who served in the Soviet Army and who had also fought in Afghanistan in the mid-1980s had mentioned to me on a few occasions (when I always got them to talk about their combat experiences) on how impressed they were of the Soviet (Russian) Special forces, and their ability to track down Mujaheddin fighters.
Hmmmmm .... now I know why. These Special Forces .... like our own .... were taught the basics on tracking the enemy and/or spotting him out in a crowd of civilians. Once again we have an example in which technology will probably never be able to match human instincts and our innate ability to focus on something that is not "right".
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