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Article #1497Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine
From: RTO Trainer
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:27
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:27
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Dharmananda <Nil@neph.net> wrote in message news:<1204636.UY531aNM1O@news.verizon.net>... > DeadMeat wrote: > > > > > I understand what Overwhelming Firepower is.��That's�where�a�bomb�is > > dropped on a house housing your enemy.��Or�where�you�have�the�troops�come > > in�behind a couple or three M-1s that blow the 2nd floor, 3rd, 4th, and > > fifth window on the 2nd and third floor completely away.��Hell,�kid,�it's > > done�all�the time and it saves lives on the US side.��If�you�overkill��it > > then�it's�still dead and you lost NO people in the first place.��If�you > > underkill�it�your ground troops are going to get some pretty nasty > > surprises. > > > > That makes sense. But then why is it, pray tell, that one of the other > military geniuses on this thread assures me, on the basis of war blogs, > that this doctrine, i.e., overwhelming firepower, is outdated? Who made that assurance to you "on the basis of war blogs?" I told you it was no longer doctrine on the basis of current Army doctrine. Perhaps the problem here is that you and I have different conceptions of the term "doctrine."
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