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    Default Wilf Platoon Tactics

    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
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    Sounds Chechen-inspired.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
    Sounds Chechen-inspired.
    Exactly my thoughts. And not only the five-men squads.


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    Default No change in frontier warfare

    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
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by William F. Owen View Post
    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.
    So there was more than one platoon, so it is a Wilf Company.

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    Quote Originally Posted by slapout9 View Post
    So there was more than one platoon, so it is a Wilf Company.
    This might be an organization suitable for the Search & Attack platoons, companies and battalions recommended by the author of the Systems Theory article.

    How about Battleswarm?.

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    How did u even find this thread?!?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
    How did u even find this thread?!?

    "The Force" my young Padawan.

    Seriously, google search looking for Wilf's article.

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