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2. Others before me have attacked the issue to some degree. Chief John Anderson’s The Newhall Incident offered less in the way of tactical analysis, and instead focused more on the historical backgrounds of the killers and the officers, and the overall narrative of the story. Massad Ayoob’s “Ayoob Files: The Newhall Massacre” was much more tactically focused, but suffered from limitations of the abbreviated magazine article format, which prohibited the use of extensive figures, photographic evidence, and detailed analysis.

3. I should take special care to note that I use this term broadly, purposely including not only our law enforcement and military professionals, but also Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman’s aptly-named civilian “sheepdogs” as well (On Combat, Lt Col Dave Grossman with Loren W. Christensen). After all, as we shall see, it was one of these civilian sheepdogs who valiantly fought alongside the officers on that fateful night and inflicted the most significant wounds on the enemy.