It's marginally adequate, way too big and overly pedantic but that seems to be the trend nowadays...
Follow the link provided by Cav Guy on this page (LINK - big .pdf). Not much of any import in the rest of the thread...
Yes.
No.
It's marginally adequate, way too big and overly pedantic but that seems to be the trend nowadays...
Follow the link provided by Cav Guy on this page (LINK - big .pdf). Not much of any import in the rest of the thread...
No need for a "tactics in COIN" manual - tactics in COIN and tactics in a conventional fight are the same, just applied to a different environment (here comes the METT-TC thing again).
Offensive and defensive operations and patrolling, patrolling and patrolling. That and learn how to eat with the locals.
only correct IF you got trained right in the first place. When I was doing my basic in 1980, all the training was peppered with Northern Ireland TTPs. The problem was that by 1988 when I was doing Recce Commanders, NI TTPs had washed out what you needed to fight a Soviet MRR.
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
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