Trigger Puller [Archive] - Small Wars Council

Trigger-Happy, Autonomous, and Disobedient: Nordbat 2 and Mission Command in Bosnia (0 replies)
WSJ: Why the Marines ditched the best Offense in history (1 replies)
New book: Why We Fight by Mike Martin (3 replies)
Leadership Quotes (8 replies)
International cooperation twists and turns (3 replies)
The 'Good Operation' Handbook (0 replies)
Rifle weapons: development and procurement (1 replies)
Tribute to fallen SEALs (0 replies)
Multi-Domain Task Force (1 replies)
Inspirational Story on Ranger medical save (2 replies)
'One man, one shot': British Army post-WW2 choices of ammunition (1 replies)
Para L/Cpl Joshua Leakey VC (2 replies)
Gun Trouble: M4 & M16 (10 replies)
Platoon Structure of Bundeswehr & French Foreign Legion (7 replies)
Why America Can't Win Mountain Wars (5 replies)
Why the Death of the Tank is Greatly Exaggerated (0 replies)
National Airborne Day! (0 replies)
A Hero Speaks (1 replies)
Identification Friend or Foe in a somewhat worse neighborhood than Golden Hills... (6 replies)
Equipment list (30 replies)
Infantry Training: Philosophies, Tips, Tricks, and Gaps (5 replies)
EdgeFuse: A Pinterest For Making Weapons (0 replies)
Share of NCOs among deployed combat troops (2 replies)
SFC Taylor, the Fog of War and Army duplicity (32 replies)
ROE & Mission Command (4 replies)
Metric Assessments in the Advisor World (8 replies)
Sergeant Major of the Army describes changes due (4 replies)
Army Sets Sights on New Carbine (0 replies)
How soldiers deal with the job of killing (131 replies)
Your Brain In Combat (42 replies)
The Army These Days (12 replies)
Headspace and Timing (30 replies)
LAR in COE/Afghan (15 replies)
Current Operation news (0 replies)
Mechanized Infantry Perceptions 2010 (99 replies)
Key Leader Engagement (KLE) TTPs (30 replies)
Suppressive Fire (303 replies)
Why are our soldiers still involved in fair fights? (3 replies)
Patrol Base Density and Proximity - Too many and too close? (15 replies)
What should the PT standard be? (20 replies)
Ambush in Kunar: a host of issues (0 replies)
Back to Basics…The Lost Art of Basic Combat Fundamentals (179 replies)
Current Combat/Tactical Tracking Operations (21 replies)
Lost Brothers? (1 replies)
How Close is 'Close Combat'? (41 replies)
Fire with Fire (89 replies)
Putting the D in METT-TC (20 replies)
The Quote of the Day, Year, maybe the Afghan War (12 replies)
The combat shotgun (62 replies)
Staff Sergeant Fido? (2 replies)
Storming the Beach (49 replies)
"Five Challenges for Future Infantry" (7 replies)
The Wounded Platoon (14 replies)
Courageous Restraint "Hold fire, earn a medal" (70 replies)
Extra Gear (5 replies)
MAJ Ehrhart - Increasing Small Arms Lethality in Afgh. (609 replies)
Bunker and tank busters at section/squad and platoon level (144 replies)
Enhanced MAGTF Operations- USMC's Small Unit Future (47 replies)
Body Counts and Metrics (72 replies)
Indirect Fire Support in Small Wars (26 replies)
60 Minutes special on SF in A'stan (28 replies)
Combat Participation (106 replies)
The Bomb detector that does not detect bombs (4 replies)
Quick question about parapets (28 replies)
What is presence patrolling? (160 replies)
Infantry accompanying load carriers (39 replies)
Distributed Operations (2 replies)
Squad Leader's Mini-UAV and PDA? (22 replies)
Cumulative impact of low calorie intake and sleep deficit in combat (43 replies)
FOB Keating attack repulsed (188 replies)
US Army Reserve/National Guard units fighting COIN (5 replies)
Strategic vignette (34 replies)
Are snipers and recon still valid in infantry battalions? (231 replies)
The McCrystal collection (catch all) (190 replies)
Hostile Takedowns (30 replies)
Air Force Motorized Jaeger Regiment? (57 replies)
AWG Brings Lighter Gear to Afghanistan. (4 replies)
The problem of "Tactical Generals." (3 replies)
Starship Troopers, here we come! (27 replies)
Size of the Platoon and Company (129 replies)
Loss and Accountability (8 replies)
Weight of Combat Gear Is Taking Toll (300 replies)
COIN Perspectives From On Point (34 replies)
America's Best Leaders: US Junior Officers, Military (11 replies)
XM25 "good enough" (99 replies)
Nomination for COIN Quote of the Day (3 replies)
TCP's (29 replies)
Creative pursuits in the wake of TBI/PTSD (4 replies)
Notes from Anbar (0 replies)
For the public....tales of soldiers untold (0 replies)
The Army’s M-4 Carbine: Background and Issues for Congress (37 replies)
Non-lethal attachments (10 replies)
The Counterinsurgency Cliff Notes (0 replies)
Weight of back packed gear study (39 replies)
COIN Companies (33 replies)
U.S. Captains Bear Weight of Iraq Strategy (41 replies)
What does the Military do in COIN? (23 replies)
Cordesman so right, yet so wrong (71 replies)
Training Fieldcraft (34 replies)
Women in Conflict (merged thread) (4 replies)
Brigadier Wavell COIN (2 replies)
FM 3-27.75 The Warrior Ethos and Soldier Combat Skills (85 replies)
Canada Exploring Small Inf Team Thinking (9 replies)
Magpul PMAG (8 replies)
Hand-to-hand in combat (117 replies)
Unit Lifetime Assignments (30 replies)
The Roles and Weapons with the Squad (977 replies)
Organization & Distance (78 replies)
Redundancy in small unit organization (48 replies)
Battle Drill (65 replies)
The Creation of Mechanized SOC Units (115 replies)
Infantry Unit Tactics, Tasks, Weapons, and Organization (306 replies)
The tactical duty knife (2 replies)
Retooling the Artilleryman (127 replies)
Platoon Weapons (218 replies)
Abandon squad/section levels of organization? (120 replies)
Will the Trigger-Puller shift mission? (6 replies)
Face Mask (10 replies)
Is this a violation of ROE or not? (34 replies)
Costly Protection (17 replies)
Little Advice and Tips please on M4 (14 replies)
Personal Security Teams for BN COs (51 replies)
Request from the Shooters (8 replies)
The Former-Insurgent Counterinsurgency (16 replies)
Adapt Or Die (51 replies)
Organizing for COIN at the Company and Platoon Level (46 replies)
The Officer Critical Skills Retention Bonus (16 replies)
Current Inadequacy of Small Arms Training for All MOSs in the Conventional Army (13 replies)
Weapns MTX in Iraq (26 replies)
Randall Knives (32 replies)
The Sole Survivor (80 replies)
Anatomy of a Firefight (1 replies)
More restrictions: Military puts Myspace, Youtube, other sites off-limits (29 replies)
The Strategic Corporal vs. The Strategic Cameraman (36 replies)
Key US Army Ranks Begin to Thin (19 replies)
Gear / TTP List (8 replies)
Combat optics, iron sights and you (43 replies)
Thoughts on "Patrol Base Infantry" (24 replies)
Thoughts from the Field on Kilcullen's 28 Articles (Pt. I) (21 replies)
Grunt Life in Afghanistan (14 replies)
Complaceny Kills... use link to teach Marines/Soldiers (17 replies)
PKM manual available online (4 replies)
Better than M4, but you can’t have it (242 replies)
We need more of these "strategic" Lts... (9 replies)
Light infantry TOEs (18 replies)
A Case Against Battle Drill Six (66 replies)
Rifle squad composition (438 replies)
Women in Military Service & Combat (not just USA) (255 replies)
'The General Mattis collection: a mixture (86 replies)
More training, less parading urged. (98 replies)
mTBI, PTSD and Stress (Catch All) (177 replies)
All matters MRAP JLTV (merged thread) (354 replies)
Snipers Sniping & Countering them (226 replies)
Combat Tracking (catch all) (219 replies)