A platoon with a couple of SAWS, a few M2’s slung under the M-4’s and a couple of fire teams of light flankers should be enough to clear out belligerent natives. Maybe seeing some of their best and brightest get plugged by a few dudes that are barely working up a sweat might persuade the survivors to meet a few new people.
Looks like some nice real estate. I’ll bet Marriott could make something really nice there. Once the dead bodies are policed of course.
Or drop off two or three old Colonial Brits. In no time they will turn them into regimental beasties or by gawd, a flaying will be in order!
Fighting in the open on the beach? Sure.
Fighting in dense jungle where the natives can be in arms reach without you seeing them? Maybe not.
1975 SS Mayaguez Incident
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayaguez_incident
EXCERPTS:
After the Khmer Rouge seized the U.S. merchant vessel SS Mayaguez in a disputed maritime area, the U.S. mounted a hastily-prepared rescue operation. U.S. Marines recaptured the ship and attacked the island of Koh Tang where it was believed that the crew were being held as hostages.
“planners . . . believed that only about 20 Cambodian irregulars armed with small arms were on the island.”
The Defense Intelligence Agency had made an assessment, in part from RF-4C and U-2 reconnaissance flights, that between 150 and 200 Khmer Rouge backed by heavy weapons occupied Koh Tang. This report was conveyed to U-Tapao but was never briefed to the planners, probably due to security classification issues, who believed that only about 20 Cambodian irregulars armed with small arms were on the island.
“A platoon with a couple of SAWS, a few M2’s slung under the M-4’s and a couple of fire teams of light flankers should be enough to clear out belligerent natives. Maybe seeing some of their best and brightest get plugged by a few dudes that are barely working up a sweat might persuade the survivors to meet a few new people.”
Why would you want to do that? Leave them alone.