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Post by hefferman1 on Mar 19, 2012 8:42:57 GMT -5
This is a video of troops from the 101st being ambushed in Afghanistan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O2cUXtA-Y0&feature=relatedThis is a good critique of the action. mountainguerrilla.blogspot.com/Please read the comments also. The only reason this was not front page news and a massacre is the rag heads did not plan a proper ambush, or have any marksmanship skills. Honestly marksmanship skills and a proper L type ambush across their direction of march and it would not have been pretty. If the rag heads had used an IED, or two at the very start of the engagement, and been marksman this would have been very nasty.
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Post by hefferman1 on Mar 19, 2012 9:00:21 GMT -5
Lessons to be learned from this engagement.
1. Marksmanship is very important. Again Marksmanship is very important. You can't win the fight if you don't shoot anyone. Accurate fire at a range your enemy can not return accurate fire will always have a devastating effect on the enemy. (Why go into combat with weapons that have the same limitations as the enemies weapons?)
2. Piss poor planning, results in piss poor performance. This ambush was poorly planned even for a hasty ambush. A claymore, or IED setup properly and detonated at the right time and this unit would have been tore up and not able to move. It then could have been picked apart and over run.
3. US troops carry too much equipment to move quickly, and are tied to their vehicles and air power. Take out these, or limit there use and they can be worn down quickly.
4. The two most important things in any military endeavor is leadership, and discipline. both sides showed poor discipline, and even worse leadership. A. The Taliban did not set the ambush up correctly, did not show good use of fire power ((did not open fire with all weapons at once) mortars, IEDs, and rifle fire) B. The US troops did not move in a coordinated manner, did not return fire to suppress enemy fire, did not move out of the kill zone quickly. They sat there waiting on air power to rescue them.
This was a piss poor ambush, against a piss poorly lead unit that only luck saved from having causalities.
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Post by avordvet on Mar 19, 2012 12:23:44 GMT -5
Lessons to be learned from this engagement. During the Soviet excursion into Afghanistan, the Mujahedin drew a soviet vehicle/tank column into a tight valley. When the column crossed one of two bridges that accessed the valley, the Mujahedin blew both bridges, and started to cut the column to pieces. As Soviet air-power moved in to support the trapped troops, another group of Mujahedin stood up on the ridge tops, holding the new "stinger" surface to air missile system... It was a very bad day for one of the most advanced armies in the world.
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Post by hefferman1 on Mar 19, 2012 16:54:24 GMT -5
Lessons to be learned from this engagement. During the Soviet excursion into Afghanistan, the Mujahedin drew a soviet vehicle/tank column into a tight valley. When the column crossed one of two bridges that accessed the valley, the Mujahedin blew both bridges, and started to cut the column to pieces. As Soviet air-power moved in to support the trapped troops, another group of Mujahedin stood up on the ridge tops, holding the new "stinger" surface to air missile system... It was a very bad day for one of the most advanced armies in the world. It looks like that level of planning and marksmanship is a thing of the past. The guys in the 101st should be gald, or they would have been a thing of the past.
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