Sounds Chechen-inspired.
Wilf, are they listening to you? This video was posted earlier on the SWC Blog, if listen closely toward the end you will hear them talk about how they had 30 groups of 5 men each and then surrounded the target and attack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcYJi...layer_embedded
Last edited by slapout9; 11-16-2009 at 07:00 PM.
Slap & others,
I have not immersed myself in the Wana attack, but noted the attack was at dawn and the target was a newly established base. As Andrew Skeen wrote anyone on the frontier is vulnerable in such situations.
This was the original discussion thread:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=5732
Last edited by davidbfpo; 11-16-2009 at 08:37 PM. Reason: Add link
davidbfpo
I certainly cannot take credit for organising in 5-man teams. That goes back to WW1. Also, my schtick was a 30-man platoons in formed into 6 x 5-man teams - and even that is not original. The video said 150 men in 30 groups of 5, not 5 Groups of 30.
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