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Article #1543Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine
From: Dharmananda
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:47
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:47
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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geniuses on this thread assures me, on the basis of war blogs, that this doctrine, i.e., overwhelming firepower, is outdated? -- Triratanam sharanam gaccami Dharmananda http://mysite.verizon.net/res6zeam/american-buddhist/news.html
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