If you are holding town A with your troops, how to get the additional manpower to "take" town B?Originally posted by Shotgun:Well, just sweeping in to kill insurgents isn't gonna really help stabilise the situation. Everytime u march armored vehicles and marines through the towns, and start popping hellfires and tank rounds, ppl die. Insurgents or not. It doesn't serve to stabilise the situation at all.
I figured they should have used tis Raid and Dig in right from the start. Together with a siege of every town. Clear the town, dig in, siege the town further to prevent more insurgents from coming in, move on to clear adjacent or nearest towns. One at a time. I reckon the brits would have thought of that.
They finally learnt something from Vietnam...anyone remember hamburger hill?Originally posted by Shotgun:This was the last building in a five-day sweep of the town, a point at which the Americans, in the past, would usually have loaded up their armored vehicles, driven back to their desert bases and prepared for a new raid elsewhere, leaving the door open for a return of the rebels.
But this time the marines immediately began digging in, and Iraqi troops joined them.
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I'm sorry, but the Americans were actually clearing an area and then leaving it UNWATCHED, UNMANNED AND UNGUARDED???? And now they realise, "duh oooo i think we need to leave some people behind to hold the place."
If they attack and seize places, only to leave it for the enemy to recapture, then WHATS THE BLOODY POINT? No wonder the mighty US Military is still stuck in iraq.
Its bloody common sense that u seize the objective, deny it to the enemy until it is no longer viable to do so. What have they been doing all this while? Playing BattleFields 2? CHiong Kill, Kio frag and the wait for the game to end and see who get top frag ah? WTF!!! Brain problem.
Source : http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/05/international/middleeast/05anbar.html
They can't even fully trust the new iraqi army, not to mention the locals who would staff the militia.Originally posted by |-|05|:They shld start training local militia to help them out.....then slowly move out
u will need some Gurkhas help there...by the way, the british have a bn of gurkhas situated at brunei ready for any action in this region.Originally posted by touchstone_2000:Any one remember the formula for fighting guerillas?
During the Malaya Confrontation, the Brits figured it is some X soldiers :Y population.
Lately, there there have been some Singaporeans, you included giving theirOriginally posted by Shotgun:This was the last building in a five-day sweep of the town, a point at which the Americans, in the past, would usually have loaded up their armored vehicles, driven back to their desert bases and prepared for a new raid elsewhere, leaving the door open for a return of the rebels.
But this time the marines immediately began digging in, and Iraqi troops joined them.
.
I'm sorry, but the Americans were actually clearing an area and then leaving it UNWATCHED, UNMANNED AND UNGUARDED???? And now they realise, "duh oooo i think we need to leave some people behind to hold the place."
If they attack and seize places, only to leave it for the enemy to recapture, then WHATS THE BLOODY POINT? No wonder the mighty US Military is still stuck in iraq.
Its bloody common sense that u seize the objective, deny it to the enemy until it is no longer viable to do so. What have they been doing all this while? Playing BattleFields 2? CHiong Kill, Kio frag and the wait for the game to end and see who get top frag ah? WTF!!! Brain problem.
Source : http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/05/international/middleeast/05anbar.html
If Poland is really that poor, it would not even be able to join the EU.Originally posted by Sid_Vicious:Lately, there there have been some Singaporeans, you included giving their expert view on how to fight the war in Iraq. This is quite typical of Singapore in general, all talk but no action. We always like to give our views on how to solve the world problems, but when asked to contribute, we disappear.
Singapore are worst than Mongolia, one of the poorest in the world but have 120 ground troops in Iraq.
Singapore are worst than Poland, Romania, 30 years of communist rule make them the poorest in Europe. Yet the Poles fight the bravest with their ground troops. Both are developing third world country that contributed hundreds of ground troops in Iraq.
These 3 poor countries do not have any F16 or F15, their army is old and their
euipment is obsolete. Yet, they are willing to commit their soldiers to Iraq when it is being requested of them.
Want to tell people how to fight the war? Pls make sure that our own country
contribute some soldiers first.
Look "Prick," this is a forum for us to discuss. Ur sarcastic mannerism is not appreciated. At least i meant sincerely what I said about what the US is doing is in Iraq.Originally posted by Sid_Vicious:Lately, there there have been some Singaporeans, you included giving their
expert view on how to fight the war in Iraq. This is quite typical of Singapore in general, all talk but no action. We always like to give our views on how to solve the world problems, but when asked to contribute, we disappear.
Singapore are worst than Mongolia, one of the poorest in the world but have 120 ground troops in Iraq.
Singapore are worst than Poland, Romania, 30 years of communist rule make them the poorest in Europe. Yet the Poles fight the bravest with their ground troops. Both are developing third world country that contributed hundreds of ground troops in Iraq.
These 3 poor countries do not have any F16 or F15, their army is old and their
euipment is obsolete. Yet, they are willing to commit their soldiers to Iraq when it is being requested of them.
Want to tell people how to fight the war? Pls make sure that our own country
contribute some soldiers first.
American military officials in Anbar say this has always been their plan - it has already been applied elsewhere in the country - but they never had enough troops to carry it out. Since spring, the number of Iraqi troops operating in Anbar Province has surged to the current level of about 16,000 from about 2,500 in March, said Maj. Gen. Stephen T. Johnson,