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

On Feb 1, 2008 2:57 PM, Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:

> >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.

Ummm. . . if the enemy has enough indirect fire to drop rounds on
every single transmitter in a modern army, you are so badly
overmatched and outnumbered that you may as well go home.  If I'm
attacking with a brigade of 5,000 Soldiers, and I have say, 1 radio
per 5 men, then the sheer volume of transmissions is going to
overwhelm the direction-finding weenies.  Especially when you consider
that most of the transmission are a second or two long.  Indirect fire
dropping in on transmitters will remain reserved for folks talking on
the radio long enough to identify them as Important People, not SGT
Joe Teamleader.

> >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.

I've had Apaches on my radio net.  My platoon leader was talking to
them.  That didn't happen in WWII.  You most certainly didn't have
P-47s asking about the movement on a particular room and asking if it
was friendly or not.

> >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.

A lot.	It won't resemble WWII in the slightest.

> 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.

Which isn't the point I was making.  Read what's written.

With high-tech gear on either side, or on both, the combat will not
strongly resemble WWII at the tactical level.

John
-- 
"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani

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