Yup. This is why I don’t advise joining the military right now.
Even the Generals are pussyfooting around.
“Under General McChrystal, NATO forces were prohibited from calling in air strikes or artillery fire on village compounds where the enemy might have been mixed in with civilians. Going several steps better, General Petraeus has reportedly expanded the ban on air strikes and artillery fire to all types of buildings, tree-lined areas and hillsides where it is difficult to distinguish who is on the ground.”
Writes Petraeus: “Every Afghan civilian death diminishes our cause.”
In other words let them shoot at you and do not dare to fire back. What a jack a$$! I'm sorry but this guy has me fired up. I guess our guys are just cannon fodder?
If this is the way it's going to be, then I will highly discourage anyone thinking of joining the service. Yeah change we can believe in!
We apparently have lost the war fighting lessons from WWII where you destroyed everything in front of you. The current tactics did not work in Nam and won’t work here.
I think we should bring our boys home and hire the Israeli army to take care it.
WTF.
Is this Time creating disinformation, or the usual LameStream Media failure to understand the real world?
Or is Petraeus really doing as this rag suggests?
Before, unless you were taking fire from a compound or any structure, now matter how dilapidated, you couldn't degrade it even if the enemy had clearly retreated inside. Before, the enemy could hide in any walls-only, unoccupied, falling down structure. If they didn't fire, they were off limits to arty or air.
Now, if the enemy goes into any structure without a roof or any structure with a roof and only 3 walls we can degrade it whether we are fired on from that location or not.
This is a huge improvement and we no longer have to use ground assault on dilapidated structures.
*bump*