Re: Manuever warfare was:Anti-Tank guns

In a message dated 99-02-12 14:53:58 EST, you write:

<< > Desert Storm was a walk in the park with a L7A3 and someone with a
1"
knive
 > trying to mug you, not all that dificult, I know that ~400 people
were
killed
 > in action,
 
 and, iirc, most were killed by friendly fire.

That's one thing that we really screwed up, my point was that the
"military"
that we were fighting were poorly trained and equiped.
 
 > One of the things that I addressed with the Arty and Air support is
having
 > them at the company level, each company has 4 Attack helos and 2 Med
MRLS
 > launchers, that should make getting supporting arty much easer.
 
 this makes a good deal of sense - the marines, as has been mentioned,
have
 very effective fire support because it is available to them as just
 another tactical option, rather than as a complicated ritual. whether
this
 could be done with the use of computers instead is another question. if
 you can point your designator at something, then there should be a
button
 on your tactical computer (probably marked "SMITE" or some such) the
 pressing of which will send a message to the artillery fire control
 computer and get the rounds on their way. obviously, there'll be
 supervision of fire requests, etc, but as it stands there are far too
many
 humans in the loop here!
 
 Tom
  >>
The idea is also used in the Amry's Cav troop, alto they just have two
morters
to support them, the idea of a SMITE button is very good.
-Stephen