To: xzins
ping
6 posted on
12/02/2003 9:15:07 AM PST by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitor)
To: Blueflag
"some are also being placed on the M872 Heavy Equipment Trailers. This might sound unusual, but the trucks are large, can carry a lot of ammunition, and guerillas in Iraq might not suspect they are armed at first. " Not so unusual....there were heavily armed merchant ships in WWII mixed in with the convoys....gave the bad guys a nasty
8 posted on
12/02/2003 9:18:33 AM PST by
spokeshave
(Cancel the San Jose Merc and the one way truck to Nevada)
To: Blueflag
Seems like sound thinking to me.
Reminds me of the W.E.B. Griffin books....I think the Lieutenants (Maybe Captains) where the hero hangs armor plates and 50 cal's onto his jeeps and trucks and rips through the N. Korea/Chinese forces.
We need to think in terms of a true offensive rather than a reactive offense.
I'm thinking a planned, thought-out, cordon and search of the entire country.
10 posted on
12/02/2003 9:22:42 AM PST by
xzins
(Proud to be Army!)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl; LADY J; sigSEGV; TheCrusader; patton; Lurker; MarkeyD; kimoajax; paul544; ...
ping
16 posted on
12/02/2003 9:35:39 AM PST by
Cannoneer No. 4
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