The goal of Tactical Analysis or human profiling or predictive profiling – by whatever name you call it, is to speed up your decision-making process. If you can make decisions faster than your adversary, you will have him reacting to your actions, instead of the other way around. It is a pretty basic concept and discussions on John Boyd’s OODA Loop are talked about at all levels in our military and we are always searching for ways to observe, orient, decide, and act (OODA) faster than our opponents. It was in that search that combat profiling was first created – what characteristics of human behavior could Marines use to recognize threats and make decisions more quickly on the ground?