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Julian Lage - Call of the Canyon

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Nojay UK10/07/2021 2:53:00 am PDT

re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think the point is that those are specialized infantry tactics, not the sort of mass wave formations that were outdated after WW1. We need people who understand modern weapons systems, counter-insurgency, mechanized, amphibious and airborne tactics if we want to prevail.

The most recent conflicts the US has been involved in, the winning was done by armour, crew-served weapons, air power and sensors up to and including satellites. Occupation of the conquered territories and the resulting casualties suffered by the ‘liberators’ was done by regular infantry which was probably a mistake.

The US War Department should really give consideration to developing a specialised branch of occupation forces who replace the ‘War Fighters’ on the ground after the defeated locals have been cowed into temporary submission. They tried this once, at the end of WWII in Germany in Japan and it worked really well — the troops who occupied the defeated nations were not the soldiers who had fought the enemy in human waves, they were more like armed police fresh from training and without the PTSD baggage that would trigger 360-degree automatic fire at a moment’s notice.