ABSTRACT
Among Irregular Warfare (IW) mission objectives are developing Counter-Terrorism (CT) competencies to identify people with hostile intent before events become lethal. The CT behavior profiling the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) receive special emphasis in the Combat Hunter (CH) training conducted by the US Marine Corps School of Infantry. The empirical evidence compiled from these ten classes of measures supports the quantitative impact of CH training on participants' ability to recognize hostile intent earlier in the threat cycle and the qualitative shifts in the behaviors that comprise this capability. The chapter provides additional evidence of training effectiveness in the form of qualitative shifts in behavior, adherence of the curriculum to established training principles, and anecdotal reports of CH training value from post-deployment Marines. Experimental assessments were made by comparing the performance of Marines who had not received any CH training with those who had received either the Profiling or Tracking blocks of CH.
