Every infantry Battalion in the British Army in my day and I guess nothing has changed.Originally Posted by JMA
Every major attack in the Falklands, bar one, took place at night.
I think almost every man in the rifle platoon now has some kind of night vision device.
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
There must be some reason for the reported lack of night action?
There is a lot of night action, probably the bulk in fact. It isn't reported
because most reporters don't want to go out at night and few that do have night vision devices, night actions do not make good stories and they can't get good pictures or video clips
I would have thought that the tracer and the flashes would make for wonderful TV?
Where are the Taliban at night? Other than IED work what would they typically be doing?
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