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RTO Trainer wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:14:29 GMT, Dharmananda <Nil@neph.net> wrote:
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> No.
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> Overwhelming firepower is outdated doctrine.
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> Its why we don't use it anymore.
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You may not think, from the exalted heights of your galactic certitude, that
American military doctrine is not the use of overwhelming firepower, but in
thinking that, you disagree with the American military commanders in Iraq,
and with the planet at large.

Don't believe me.  Do a Google on "overwhelming firepower."  There are
literally hundreds of records of the use of this term in the Iraq war, at
least half of them directly out of the mouths of American military
commanders.

Below is an example from USA Today (not exactly a left-wing rag).  Apart
from that, please grow up, get a life, and stop making a blind ass out of
yourself on Usenet.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-11-09-fallujah-scene_x.htm

Every vehicle is treated as a potential car bomb and every person a possible
enemy.

Approval even came over the radio to shoot dogs with shotguns to prevent
them from carrying explosives.

Bravo's final attack of the day, mounted jointly with vehicles of a light
armored reconnaissance company, demonstrated how overwhelming U.S.
firepower has dominated the fight.

Capt. Gil Juarez, the light armored reconnaissance company commander, began
the assault by blasting his 25mm turret gun down a street toward a target
house. Teams fired small mortars. "You want me to fire one more volley?"
Juarez asked a Bravo Company officer.



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Dharmananda

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