WTF — Under the former ROE the enemy had to be in close proximity and couldn’t be engaged at distance? That would have largely crippled our snipers. Such stupid ROE must have been dreamed up by Obama’s perfumed princes and the SJWs he had promoted and place in supposedly responsible positions.
Thank God for Trump but it will be difficult to gradually rid our armed forces of the wimpy social justice ideologues and their degenerate influence.
I believe it was worse than that. Our forces had to observe the enemy doing something hostile, such as planting an IED etc, before engaging. So one guy walking around at night could tye up a half dozen people for hours, observing him with drones, giving status reports up and down the chain of command, and essentially waiting for him to ultimately do something ‘hostile’.