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    Quote Originally Posted by COMMAR View Post
    There are many USMC Rifle Squads already acting in a CAP role w/relative independence; owning their own Battle-space, developing their own networks, & training their own local militia. All of this is coordinated at the top but it is the Squads & Sqd Ldrs running the show.
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    ...The Goal wouldn't be to actively hunt the taliban, leave that for SOF, just disrupt & deny. Deny, Deny, Deny.
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    ...Let SOF go Kinetic, picking them off 1 raid at a time.
    Do the squads now operating as de-facto CAPs and would your notional CAPs have real power to shape or even veto SOF raids in their areas? I can think of little worse for a CAP at a critical point in building their relationship with their community than to have a raid come in without prior coordination one night, kill several of the wrong people, then be gone in the morning leaving just the bodies behind.

    I ask because I've read that at least in the past, SOF tends to swan about on their own without much regard for local forces.

    Also, I think who is in the CAP is critical. Would you just use the people who happen to be in a unit you picked for this or specially select them?
    Last edited by carl; 02-09-2012 at 05:55 AM.
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