Pardon my experience based on another democrat’s Vietnam War “planning”. but if you send an Army patrol into the same place over the same terrain more than 30 times, is not an even-not-alert enemy able to “Perhaps” figure out your pattern and set up an ambush?
If you send your SAC aircraft in nice pretty SAC-controlled patterns down the same air lanes night after night using exactly the same radar setups and bomb ranging turns and radio call-signs to bomb the same targets night after night at the same time, is it not reasonable for the enemy to shoot at the right altitude at the right time to kill you?
Do these Obama-era leftovers think repeating the same patrol will do anything different than it did the last time?
In our movement, it was vital that we never did anything that would allow the enemy to predict where we would be at any future time. We would change azimuths frequently, dog leg, double back, anything that would prevent the enemy from predicting where we were going. Because, if we ever allowed the enemy to successfully predict where we were going, we knew the enemy would have a unit there waiting when we arrived.
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