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To: SJackson
Your criticism makes sense, though I'm not particularly qualified to dispute it either. And the IDF doesn't exactly "prepare" the house the way we would (and they should) before clearing.

I believe that the after-action reports of Patton's Third Army, probably the all-time champions of house-to-house rathunts and MOUT, eventually came to the the conclusive thought that the best way to do so was with direct fire from self-propelled 155mm artillery pieces, though many of the then-existing designs had trouble maneuvering in narro European city streets. But the basic concept certainly works for me.


66 posted on 07/25/2002 12:48:58 PM PDT by archy
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To: archy
I believe that the after-action reports of Patton's Third Army, probably the all-time champions of house-to-house rathunts and MOUT, eventually came to the the conclusive thought that the best way to do so was with direct fire from self-propelled 155mm artillery pieces, though many of the then-existing designs had trouble maneuvering in narro European city streets. But the basic concept certainly works for me.

I was thinking air, but that works.

I love this map.

I mean, turn it around, in the other direction, the entire West Bank is in range of WW2 artillery (and Israel has advanced WW2 technology a bit).

Do you think Sharon (and his predecessors) don't know that? IMO, the restraint, given the targeting of Israeli civilians, is appalling.

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BTW, my question on the M14 bullpup came from something I read some time ago, that it was a thought in early development. I can't imagine the ejection port under my nose. My ears, they'd ber ruptured anyway. I did a search and came up with one hit, no text. What is that?


72 posted on 07/25/2002 5:56:22 PM PDT by SJackson
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