Iraqis Shoot at U.S. Tanks Caught in Narrow Streets

Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 04/08/03 | Greg Grant

[B4Ranch]

Good strategy. They were great!

[expatpat]

That, too. I understand that the Palestine Hotel is one of those tallest buildings.

[Stentor]

We need the Vietnam-era quad 50s

I do believe they worked pretty well on the hilsides of Korea also.

[Stentor]

hillsides

[First_Salute]

Yes.

Need flexible team of troops, tanks, support vehicles, helicopters (many), and on high, jets; all together.

Trick is varying who leads each attack.

Depends on what the intel is, the target is, and who has the best visibility "going in.

However the lead goes, the other elements of the team are devoted to that assault and must not wander off. (There must be a separate pool of assets from which to draw.)

Need many of these teams.

Need the helicopters to have supporting wingmen; just like aerial combat, the wingman's job is protection of the lead ship; an A-10 should be assigned to defend this flight of two helicopters. Don't use A-10's for direct ground assault except by direction of the helicopters' or ground command, aimed at what is threatening the helicopters.

So, you have a lead helicopter whose job is support the ground. Because of immediate agility, you have a wingman helicopter who supports the lead. Above them, they have an A-10 C.A.P.

On the ground, we do need short-barreled M1A1-A2's and what have you, but they for the most part should be immediate support for troops in the lead.

In general, the troops are going to have to lead; we're going to have to gouge Saddam's terrorists out of the woodwork.

We should be occupying many of the high rooftops; always, every day, increasing our vision.

[astounded]

Not only there - quad 50s were among the last working heavy weapons the French had left at the end in Dien Bien Phu. It's amazing they didn't take them out - the French broke up more than one infantry attack with those guns. Without the French quad 50s, the Viet Minh would have taken the base much sooner than they did.