This article “Swarming Tactics” by Sid Heal was published in the Spring 2011 issue of The Tactical Edge, the official publication of the National Tactical Officers Association (www.ntoa.org)

Sid heal and the National Tactical officers Association were nice enough to allow the publication of Swarming Tactics by Sid heal to be published in its entirety here on the LESC blog. The article is outstanding as I mentioned in the post More On Swarming Tactics...An Option For Law Enforcement. 

This article also enhances some of our past articles on the evolution of strategy and tactics.

• Progress, Interrupt and Neutralize (P.I.N.) Swarming Techniques For The Tactician

• Evolving Threats Small Arms and Small Unit Swarming Tactics as Tools of Terror...Are We Up To the Challenge?

• Evolution of Strategy and Tactics to Ongoing Deadly Action "Active Shootings" and Operational Art

• Small Towns, Soft Targets, Small Unit Swarming Tactics and Systems Disruption: Are We Ready For a Terrorist Attack?

• Small Wars Journal Article: Postcard from Mumbai: Modern Urban Siege

• Swarming & The Future of Conflict by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt

• The Coming Swarm by JOHN ARQUILLA

• Lessons from Mumbai Terrorist Attacks (NYPD)

• Mumbai attackers had hit list of 320 world targets

See the attached PDF for the complete article Swarming Tactics by Sid Heal bellow.

Stay Oriented!

Fred