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It is going to be very hard Marc. They like to keep us dreadfully busy here, at the Infantry School…Not to mention the fact that the school's library is abysmal at best…

Thank you WM, I’ll look...

Training does not start before next week, which means that I still have a few days to focus on my research. I am currently studying in great detail the September 1996 Taliban offensive on Kabul, a...

Thanks guys! I really appreciate it!:)

I wish we could continue this fascinating conversation, but unfortunately I have to leave, and I probably won't be anywhere near a computer with an Internet connection for a while. I wish you guys...

So, in your opinion, training on range is pretty much useless...And what exactly is a "dirty" environment?:confused:

If you wanna debate console games, you should wait for 120 mm to get online.

I'm afraid that my experince with bullpups is limited to live-fire range exercises.

Counterstrike? Is that a flick or something?

Well, first of all, I would like to formally thank you for the rhetorical spanking. It felt great! Plus, I really needed that! Seriously though, I suggest you save your misplaced aggressiveness for...

Steve, are you trying to lure me into the semantic maze of circular logic?:p

I think that's called research...a common practice in the academic world.

With the risk of annoying Tom :D, I have to mention Poole again: I believe he wrote extensively about the technique in Phantom Soldier, the Enemy's Answer to U.S. Firepower...

You're bang on, Bismarck. And if I may link your reply to my previous posts, let me just say (or rather write) that by adapting our equipment to their tactics, we're playing right into their hands.

Tom, you might be confusing Militant Tricks with Tactics of the Crescent Moon: different books, different content.

Why do you think they never got into a gunfight beyond 50-100 meters?

The most exhaustive book I've read on the tactics of Iraqi guerrilla is Militant Tricks, Battlefield Ruses of the Islamic Insurgent written by John Poole...

Rob, I'm not familiar with some of the...

Well, both American and Canadian troops are, in increasing numbers, using more compact assault rifles (and you mention the short-barreled - and thus less accurate at longer ranges - M4 (US)/Diemaco...

In small wars and insurgencies, shock is achieved not through firepower and mass movement, but through surprise and pinpoint accuracy. As mass movement continues to dominate the operational and minor...