Yep. I'm far more worried about the sloppy TTP
I saw on that patrol than I am about an edited for purpose translation difficulty demonstration. Interpreter problems are a fact of life, always have been and always will be -- and it's easy to cherry pick a film clip to show that.
While proper application of COIN principles is helpful, it's not in this case a matter of certainty that other things were not said or done which might mitigate the apparent lapses.
What is not questionable is that sloppy TTP will get you killed.
I noticed that also but I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they had already cleared the village when that part of the video was taken.
SFC
Yeah but.. Hmph. Grumble, grumble...
How many people have been shot with weapons that were 'already cleared?'
Sloppy will get you killed...
(Okay, so I'm a grumpy old no-slack Dude -- but I'm still here...and that's why...)
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