Posted on 10/11/2001 12:18:56 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:47:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
U.S. commandos set to begin search-and-destroy missions against terrorists in Afghanistan must be prepared for a new kind of combat
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That's what I was thinking...the winter will actually help us greatly, won't it? We'll be able to see the heat coming out of vents and enterances of the caves better in the winter.
Yeah. So did Normandy and Okinawa.
I once read a quote by a US General, I can't recall his name, but it goes like this: "The US Army does not solve problems, it overwhelms them."
Waste of time - they already are.
We ahve some powerful, deep penetrating bombs & missiles, don't we.
If our intelligence was good, we could reserve a special
*tactical nuke*
for al Q'aeda headquarters.
This page is about the excellent book I mentioned on an earlier thread.
"Cu Chi: The underground war" -Go check it out!
They had 250 kilometers of interconected, well ventilated and engineered tunnels in just the Cu Chi distric alone, ALL dug by hand. Bin Laden owns an enfineering/construction firm, what will his be like?
Precision nukes may be the only sure fire way to ensure the TOTAL destruction of his tunnels and the occupants.
Amen.
This will be much harder than you think!
Well, I dunno, I suspect gophers are a lot smarter than terrorists.
Nananananana... I'm allll righttttt!
Dump lots of colored chemical smoke in first. Pink or yellow or royal blue -- something that cannot be mistaken for natural coloration. Watch to see where the smoke comes out. Mark all exits.
Make sure you wait an hour or two, to give the smoke a chance to percolate through the entire complex. Set up a fire team at the cave mouth, and security around that team. Keep two-three platoons and a troop of apaches in the air on-call in case the roaches attempt to scurry out of a back entrance.
Once you have all exits marked, seal with dynamite. Drop one 5-10K penetrator bomb in the center of the complex to stir throroughly. Move to next complex.
The challenges will be avoiding rock splinters and boredom.
I seem to remember that line being tried in the Gulf War -- (You know, we tried 500,000 troops in the Vietnam, we tried a sustained air campaign in the Viet Nam, we tried a ground war in Asia in Viet Nam) with less than optimal results.
I am sure your plaints will be just as effective as all of the similar whines I heard in 1990-91.
Yes we could have, and should have. It may require that here, too.
If I'm coming across as some defeatist, that's the wrong impression. That book on the tunnels in Cu-Chi made quite an impression on me. It really laid out how futile and costly our tunnel destruction efforts were in Viet Nam. Our country, with all it's military and industrial might, was stymied by a bunch of little piss-ants who lived in hand made tunnels.
I'm hoping this thread stays bumped long enough that many freepers will check out This tunnel warfare link, and maybe even do some research on their own about our Tunnel Rats. They were one of the largest groups of unappreciated and unsung heros in Viet Nam!
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