Strategic control, by the book - this'll make the Freepers' heads spin!!

[Roland99]

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/10/04/Business/Strategic_control__by.shtml

ST. PETERSBURG - Jamie Hailer is supplying America's military leaders and intelligence specialists with expertise on dealing with global terrorism from the comfort of his home near downtown St. Petersburg.

Far from being some James Bond character, with real-life, cloak-and-dagger experiences, Hailer, 37, is the owner of a boutique publishing house that specializes in resurrecting highly regarded but out-of-print books on military history and strategy.

Hailer's best seller is a 40-year-old work on counterinsurgency written by a French army officer who served in China, Southeast Asia and Algeria. Since starting his company as a sideline in March, Hailer has sold about 2,400 copies of David Galula's Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice to everyone from intel experts to generals-in-training.

"I kind of stumbled on a subculture of retired CIA and Army guys who are pulling their hair out about us blowing it in Iraq like we did in Vietnam," said Hailer (pronounced Hi-ler). "When they found out I was publishing this book, they pushed it like crazy."