Quote Originally Posted by reed11b View Post
...however, in an urban environment it does not. You can expect contact. You can expect to have no safe exit route. you can EXPECT to take casualties. Combat is becoming increasingly urban and any discusion of unit compisition needs to take this in consideration.
Reed
Seems to me METT-TC, as always, applies. Do the guys in Afghanistan and the Philippines know about this urban stuff?

One should always expect contact and to take casualties. One should never expect to have no safe exit route but acknowledging that can happen, there should be an extraction plan...
...but I do not hold Marine tactics in very high regard anyway.
I suspect some of them feel the same way about Army TTP. Both types have advantages and disadvantages -- like everything else in the world.