[tonycavanagh]

re ;My background in the Navy included shore bombardment and fire support for the troops with accurately aimed and delivered 5 inch and larger projectiles.

I did a bit of time with 148 Navel Gunfire Support you ever work with those lads. That is a forward observers who go forward.

The problem here is that we are dealing with hit and run groups, who hide and operate amongst urban terrine full of civilians, who we are supposed to be protecting from the bad guys.

Counter Insurgency Wars require different rules to other forms of conflicts and the best weapon we got is the infantry man on the ground.

[Valin]

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
University of Chicago Press ^ | John A. Nagl

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Posted on 03/21/2006 8:40:22 AM CST by Valin


Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam John A. Nagl

Preface to the Paperback Edition Spilling Soup on Myself