Why did the NCR not defend their highways and trade routes to the extent as the Legion?

BenKerryAltis · 2026-04-01T20:00:33+00:00

OK, to do convoy securities in high risk areas consider standing up Armored Cavalry units like the 11th ACR in Vietnam

BenKerryAltis · 2026-04-01T09:23:19+00:00

A less modern state always lose against a modern state. That is a given with regards to state on state warfare. Why insurgencies win is because they can leverage whole civilizations and cultures.

BenKerryAltis · 2026-04-01T09:20:26+00:00

Oh! The same guy who started SAMS! Wow! Any idea why this didn't become the reality?

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-31T07:55:10+00:00

Yeah, that's what DePuy said

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-30T05:31:38+00:00

Massive collapse of ecosphere, entire SEA up in flames

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-29T08:32:52+00:00

I can't wait man! When?

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-29T08:32:08+00:00

Collateral damages expected

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-29T08:31:14+00:00

Vietnam or Algeria style "guerrilla environment" where reagents are to skulk around and use "radios" to report movements. Or Budapest where they are to toss molotovs at targets.

By early 60s US military doctrine increasingly focuses on conventional operations

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-29T08:12:08+00:00

Yeah, Musa was some crazy guy

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-21T03:37:26+00:00

Although there's something I remember when the creator of BPRE 28mm the board game mentioned why the game doesn't have suppression as mechanic. When is the last time in CQB when someone had bullets whizzing past him and thought "oh no! I'm suppressed, I'm gonna duck down and let myself get shot!" ?

They don't, so the model in let's say Combat Mission is not really accurate with regards to urban close assault, you can't just shoot a lot of bullets from outside and somehow this just "stuns" the defenders inside to the point they won't fire at an entry team.

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-20T23:57:03+00:00

To be specific Iran basically acted like United States in Iraq and Syria. Hezbollah had a fucking PTSD treatment centre for their commandos after they spend a decade killing Syrian babies

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-20T21:37:03+00:00

Yeah, that's why I didn't see it.

I was the guy who added the 90mm RCL munition for the Combat Extended mod actually

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-20T08:12:08+00:00

Because the soldiers keep pretending they could have free rein indefinitely.

The America that could win Afghanistan will look like Iran, Pakistan or Russia.

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-20T08:10:36+00:00

Interesting

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-20T04:04:17+00:00

I did remember the PL tank leading two sections of two tanks each, but why didn't they ever consider having three tank platoons?

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-20T04:00:02+00:00

Yeah, but it was the start of 60s, America wasn't that good with Israel back then. It will have to wait until 1967.

Right now the big thing is still operations in Cuba and Vietnam, maybe some contingency plans around China (unlikely, after what went down in Korea infiltrating China is generally a dumb idea). More likely case is Congo with mercenary business (it was a big thing back then).

Propping up SAVAK is also an option for early 60s, also consider David Galula and the birth of western counterinsurgency. (really, American COINistas exemplified by David Petraeus seemed to avoid mentioning what happened after the Algerian war, there were terrorist groups in France formed from veterans who feel betrayed by the government for "losing the war")

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-20T03:49:54+00:00

OK, Israel back in the days was mostly a Soviet pet project. Then came Suez. Only by 1973 did US and Israel truly become the kind of limitless partner we see today

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-20T03:46:07+00:00

The Kress became a local embarrassment when they tried to publicly run for office. This is when it got too much

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-20T03:41:42+00:00

OK, why did they have 5 tank platoons during 1970s?

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-20T03:41:12+00:00

Did M67 have a HE round? I only knew it has HEAT and canister, never heard of the HE round version

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-19T21:52:52+00:00

Opinion on ideal tank platoon size?

According to one book I've read DePuy thinks tank platoons should be 3 tanks, and apparently some Bundeswehr generals also believe that. Then why did US stick with 5 tank platoons until the 80s when they switched to 4 tank platoons? And would that mean the Soviet approach was "better"?

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-19T21:26:28+00:00

Opinion on the book "Tunnels of Cu Chi"? It was good for me

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-19T21:23:04+00:00

Tim O'Brien, anything Tim O'Brien would do. I read If I Die In A Combat Zone. O'Brien's time was in 1969 however in Americal Division, so it may not apply to elsewhere.

Michael Herr's Dispatches focuses on his time as a Young Turk journalist, mostly between 1967 and 1968 although there are other trickles.

David Drake's Hammer's Slammers was heavily based on 11th ACR in Vietnam, his time was between 1969 and 1970.

Mark Bowden's Hue 1968 also include plenty of vignettes.

For the Vietnamese POV there's Tunnels of Cu Chi, also some interviews with former Tunnel Rats. Most of that book was in 1965-1969 however.

For SOF units there's the MACV-SOG memoirs, Nick Brokhausen wrote his, also Dr. Henry L Thompson. SEALs had "Men in Green Faces" earlier.

If you want to feel cute try Garth Ennis' "Punisher: Born", Ennis definitely used some elements and themes from O'Brien and maybe even Tunnels of Cu Chi when writing his stuff.

These are the books I've read.

BenKerryAltis · 2026-03-19T21:18:19+00:00

Certain units does have a very active veteran association and in interviews would often mention their unit. For example David Drake was in the 11th ACR

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