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2005-01-10 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2005-01-10 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What a mish-mash muddled mess. Thx, WTOP.

In today's Sport News, 28-17, 56-44, 18-0.

Posted by .com 2005-01-10 1:31:57 AM|| 2005-01-10 1:31:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hurray! My team won!

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-10 6:41:18 AM|| 2005-01-10 6:41:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Article: American commanders recently announced a change in response to roadside bombings. Rather than pushing on after the blast, they now stop and try to engage the perpetrators, who may have detonated the explosives remotely.

This sounds like the old "find 'em, fix 'em and kill 'em" formula, except that it was traditionally done with infantry formations, not relatively lightly-armed supply convoys. If the commanders feel confident enough about the ability of heli-borne, air-borne, mortar and artillery fire support get the supply people out of trouble, we've definitely hit a new milestone in fire support. Otherwise, the commanders are going to be backpedaling from this new stance real quick. The reason for the old stance, of getting out of the attack zone, was that the guerrillas can concentrate anywhere they want to - attacking only the weak convoys, using large guerrilla formations. Current convoy tactics are similar to the convoy tactics during the Battle of the Atlantic in WWII, when stragglers and sub-damaged ships were left to their own devices, so as to avoid the destruction of the entire convoy at the hands of the U-boat wolf packs.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-01-10 9:39:46 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-01-10 9:39:46 AM|| Front Page Top

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