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06-09-2009, 01:40 PM | #6721 |
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That is a really good looking Rampart! He is a cool character that should have gotten more recoginition with being involved with missions! I wonder why they didn't try to develop him more and have him in more issues or stories!
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06-09-2009, 01:50 PM | #6722 |
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I know. Alot of those guys from that era got the shaft: Recoil, Ambush, Backblast, Salvo, Grid-Iron, etc.. Big Ben got the most spotlight it seems. Recoil and Ambush were background characters in the TA war. Backblast appeared with Rampart. Salvo in that one issue in TA with Metalhead. Grid-Iron never appeared in the comics?
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06-09-2009, 01:53 PM | #6723 |
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That is a really good looking Rampart!
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"Cell" structuring was used to devastating and efficient effect against the US during the Vietnam War and against the USSR during the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. SF and DEVGRU have been organized in a manner more akin to the guerilla and terrorist organizations they've been designed to counteract, and I think it's time the rest of the conventional military started doing the same to a limited extent in theaters where the enemy takes the form of a decentralized network organization and not a traditionally regimented and hierarchical army. |
06-09-2009, 02:05 PM | #6724 |
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I've always been for de-centralized force structuring myself, so the idea of replacing a carrier with 2 smaller vessels is something I can get behind. Instead of having one big central hub for command and staff, have everything set up in a way that you've got all the essential C2 functions distributed among non-colocated semi-independent cells or nodes (something that guerilla armies and insurgent organizations have been doing for decades, and why it's so hard to use the old military dictum of "cut off the head and the body will die" against them). The "central command" concept is so 20th century Cold War (although a lot of militaries still insist on it... many commanders just can't abide by the idea of having independently thinking sub-units under their command).
"Cell" structuring was used to devastating and efficient effect against the US during the Vietnam War and against the USSR during the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. SF and DEVGRU have been organized in a manner more akin to the guerilla and terrorist organizations they've been designed to counteract, and I think it's time the rest of the conventional military started doing the same to a limited extent in theaters where the enemy takes the form of a decentralized network organization and not a traditionally regimented and hierarchical army. I agree. Have one large command center to oversee everything and a bunch of fairly independant units that can think and act on their own. I don't think we'll ever win the "war on terror" because our military just doesn't think and act like theirs does. Sometimes I think we just need to let the CIA and Delta loose and let 'em do their thing.
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06-09-2009, 02:35 PM | #6725 |
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My point was more towards the adoption of organizational flexibility. "The Silent War" is an excellent book written by Victor N. Corpus, a Philippine Army officer who joined the communist New People's Army in the 1970s to fight the right-wing Marcos dictatorship, outlines and explains in great detail, using real-world examples, how a small and under-equipped but operationally versatile decentralized force can take down traditionally regimented units armed with superior numbers and firepower (Corpus himself was not a Marxist-Leninist, but joining the NPA was the only way he felt he could contribute to the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos... the whole "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" deal). After the non-violent overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, Corpus was reinstated by the new government as a lieutenant colonel and returned to the national military as a hero (he'd spent the past 10 years as a politicial prisoner after surrendering to Marcos in 1976, after becoming disillusioned with the communist cause) and tried to apply the same special operations principles he developed for the NPA to now counteract the rising communist and Islamist insurgency in the country. He now spends his time as an international lecturer on special operations counter-insurgency tactics and strategy (he's taught lectures at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as an expert on economics, technology, and international security). Anyways, I digress, but "Silent War" is a great book if you can find it (I first read it when I was 12... my dad -- who was a Corpus admirer for a time -- actually lent it to me. I used to get in a lot of trouble with older relatives and my teachers for carrying that book around). Last edited by zuludelta; 06-09-2009 at 02:45 PM.. |
06-09-2009, 02:39 PM | #6726 |
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I know. Alot of those guys from that era got the shaft: Recoil, Ambush, Backblast, Salvo, Grid-Iron, etc.. Big Ben got the most spotlight it seems. Recoil and Ambush were background characters in the TA war. Backblast appeared with Rampart. Salvo in that one issue in TA with Metalhead. Grid-Iron never appeared in the comics?
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06-09-2009, 02:45 PM | #6727 |
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I did like him - although I could never figure out what the bandolier was for.
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06-09-2009, 02:47 PM | #6728 |
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So here's a question about fire support elements: Is there a company-level FSO as well as a battalion-level FSO and brigade-level FSO? The Battalion FIST HQ consists of a Fire Support NCO and two specialists run by an FSO, and the FIST itself has three two-man FO parties, usually one assigned to each rifle platoon but I've read that the FSO is typically a 2nd or 1st LT, which doesn't seem correct for a battalion-level FSO.
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06-09-2009, 02:48 PM | #6729 |
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Sometimes I think they'd need to get a little dirty. Let 'em do what they need to do to get the job done.
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06-09-2009, 02:51 PM | #6730 |
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And what was that bandolier for?
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