COIN Companies

[shark11]

Sabre,
Couldn't agree more, and I'm one of the guys who is supposed to call in that precision standoff firepower. I think our reliance on close air support in the two current wars is a potential vulnerability that the bad guys have not learned to fully exploit yet.

I agree but I think our biggest shortfall is not effectively using CAS in a COIN enviorment. I worked with one FAC who had it down....he used every bit of intelligence available to use his air assets and recorded all of his observations. These observations were of great use to me in fusing it with my work.....it was lethal, we ran a handful of devasting CAS missions together....sadly, the other two FACS I worked with were not nearly as adept and contempt on flying around and waiting for it to hit the fan......

You have to be proactive in all aspects of COIN and any warfare for that matter.

Also nice to see another SOCNET APO member on this forum.

[bikewrench8541]

I really like Distillers post on this topic.
However in a real world situation it would be hard to get past anyones command these days it seems.
Also can I get an oorah Socnet brothers.