Aye to that.Originally Posted by Starbuck
I used to be a bit of an IPB junky, until an old boy I was showing around our deployed CP pointed out to me that is was knowledge all officers (and SNCOs) should have. He'd been an Brigade IO in Normandy!
What ever happened to Staff Rides and TEWTS? Good ones taught you about ground if nothing else.
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
Unfortunately, they were replaced by
computers and even with GIS and really neat terrain modeling software, something is lost in translation...
That's my monthly understatement.
yeah.. not the same. Nothing like being chest deep in a river in Dorset trying to prove to your syndicate that it could be crossed without boats or infantry bridging.
I never was that smart.....
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
The virtues of a reverse slope defence...
In Light Infantry in the Defence: Exploiting the Reverse Slope from Wellington to the Falklands and Beyod, (SAMS Monograph, US-CGSC) Link in Post No.12.
Lt Col. Archibald Galloway points out that the Argentinians had used a forward slope defensive posture in all of their defensive battles enabling the British to use direct fire ATGM, Mgs and Laws against them whereas if they had adopted the reverse slope things would have been much more difficult (p. 29)
Last edited by davidbfpo; 06-24-2010 at 06:46 PM. Reason: link found by another
Will read with interest. - but cannot due to a broken link!
Actually a reverse slope defence requires a lot of training, and usually a lot of depth. I can agree that being out in the open on a forward slope is just plain dumb, as the Boca House position proved!
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
Try this. It's a 1985 CGSC paper.
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
Have to say, I read that and was impressed. The author was one of the first I've read to get the importance of the "counter-slope." - a point mostly missed by those who pontificate about "reverse slope."
In BAOR, this was where we should have sighted our long range AT-weapons, and the prepared tank firing locations.
Good paper - not perfect, but well worth a read.
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
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