Monday, November 22, 2004
TCP Tactics from the Brits
Good stuff from our British friends. (Read past the first passage on an investigation into a shooting of a suspected suicide bomber)
The traffic control point is one of the most useful counterinsurgent techniques in the arsenal. It's most effective on a reverse slope, where approaching traffic doesn't see the TCP until within small-arms range, and in the open desert where a vehicle would have to be really obvious about turning around.
Things get a little hairier around built-up areas, but you've usually got about 30 minutes before the enemy figures out what you're up to and manages to organize an attack. And when he does, he's got the rooftops and windows and catches you at a disadvantage.
So once we got smart, we tried to set up a TCP at random somewhere, and be in and out real quick. We took wounded a few times doing that--usually after staying too long, or showing up too often in the same place. Setting a pattern can get you killed.
We never had the airlift support to do the airmobile TCPs...our sector was very compact and almost all built-up, and so would not have lent itself well to the airmobile concept. But it's an outstanding technique, which gets the job done, and will be very difficult to target.
This technique would have been at its most effective in the deserts outside of Fallujah in the runup to the assault and in the early days of the attack, catching insurgents as they were forced to move.
At worst, it would have forced the insurgents to leave all their gee-whiz communications gear and much of their weaponry behind. At best, you catch al Zarqawi himself.
It's an old technique--what Tecumseh Sherman called "putting the enemy on the horns of a dilemma."
Either he stays and dies in Fallujah, or you force him to run the gauntlet in the open, at every disadvantage.
I guarantee you we nabbed some bad guys out there doing just that. Our own soldiers in the 1-124th used to pop open the trunk of a car and find a 155mm shell inside, once in a while.
Reminds me of David Hackworth's airmobile hunter-killer teams when he was a 9th Division battalion commander in Viet Nam, trying to "out G the G."
Splash, out
Jason
The traffic control point is one of the most useful counterinsurgent techniques in the arsenal. It's most effective on a reverse slope, where approaching traffic doesn't see the TCP until within small-arms range, and in the open desert where a vehicle would have to be really obvious about turning around.
Things get a little hairier around built-up areas, but you've usually got about 30 minutes before the enemy figures out what you're up to and manages to organize an attack. And when he does, he's got the rooftops and windows and catches you at a disadvantage.
So once we got smart, we tried to set up a TCP at random somewhere, and be in and out real quick. We took wounded a few times doing that--usually after staying too long, or showing up too often in the same place. Setting a pattern can get you killed.
We never had the airlift support to do the airmobile TCPs...our sector was very compact and almost all built-up, and so would not have lent itself well to the airmobile concept. But it's an outstanding technique, which gets the job done, and will be very difficult to target.
This technique would have been at its most effective in the deserts outside of Fallujah in the runup to the assault and in the early days of the attack, catching insurgents as they were forced to move.
At worst, it would have forced the insurgents to leave all their gee-whiz communications gear and much of their weaponry behind. At best, you catch al Zarqawi himself.
It's an old technique--what Tecumseh Sherman called "putting the enemy on the horns of a dilemma."
Either he stays and dies in Fallujah, or you force him to run the gauntlet in the open, at every disadvantage.
I guarantee you we nabbed some bad guys out there doing just that. Our own soldiers in the 1-124th used to pop open the trunk of a car and find a 155mm shell inside, once in a while.
Reminds me of David Hackworth's airmobile hunter-killer teams when he was a 9th Division battalion commander in Viet Nam, trying to "out G the G."
Splash, out
Jason
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