In the Spring of 2008 I was between deployments to Iraq and, in the interim, I was on my way to an eight-hour class given by a former police officer about how “Combat Policing” could help us while deployed. The premise was very enticing – there are a lot of similarities between law enforcement skills and fighting a counter-insurgency fight, so I expected there to be a lot that we could learn from someone who spent their entire career trying to separate the criminals from the crowd. I, along with pretty much everyone else in the class, was excited to see what we could learn from this guy.