Re: [GZG] [SG3]: What if?

[Ryan Gill <rmgill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 6:04 PM -0600 1/31/08, John Atkinson wrote:
>Night vision.
>
>Automatic or burst fire weapons in the hands of every single combatant.
>
>Automatic Rifles (M-249, RPK) as common issue, with enough ammo to
>matter.  The only WWII equivalent was the BAR, and that was huge,
>unweildy, and had a mere 20rd mag.
>
>Body armor.
>
>Radio communications down to the individual or at least the team leader.

What happens when radio coms like that became an attractor for counter fire home. IR will help, but that means you're in Line of sight only, perhaps around one or two walls.

>Smaller squads in most 1st World Armies.
>
>Vehicle support, frequently armored, integrated at every level.
>
>More responsive and more accurate artillery and air support.

With many more layers of command approval required to get it.

>The impact on MOUT should be immediately obvious.

So give both sides this sort of gear and take away the Air Superiority and make it air parity. What does that change? Think 1st World Combatant vs 1st World Combatant.

One thing I've learned from history is that the fight for your life as a nation isn't against a force that you have absolute superiority over, its the one that has a chance to snuff you out. Hands down the biggest baddest force we fought as a nation was the Germans. They had superior infantry (early on) and superior tanks and aircraft in a lot of respects, just not enough senior leaders to know when NOT to attack and Hitler just really screwed their strategic situation up all kinds of ways from Sunday.
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