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In the past few days and in the midst of the murderous jubilation expressed by the Muslim communities throughout the Middle East for their new found Arab “Sprung” freedom, insider attacks number 37 and 38 reaped the religion of peace and our government, six more ISAF and American dead, two British Soldiers killed in an attack on Camp Bastion and some $150,000,000.00 worth of equipment including six Harriers destroyed and two severely damaged.
Not a bad five day’s work for Allah’s “peaceful worshippers”!
Of course the single most outrageous act of the week was the pre-planned, coordinated attack on our Embassy Staff in Benghazi which yielded another four completely unnecessary American deaths; an attack this administration, as of this writing still refuses to acknowledge as a pre-planned, coordinated attack.
Some clarification is in order at this point. Let’s define what elements define a “coordinated attack”:
1. The use of combined arms, ie small arms fire (rifles), rocket assisted direct fire weapons (RPG’s), indirect fire weapons (Mortars).
2. The assignment of individuals to specific elements of the attack:
a. Base Fire Element which provides, preparatory and suppressing fires – Mortars combined with machine guns, rockets and small arms are used to soften the target and render defenders inoperable.
b. A Maneuver element – a lightly armed unit(rifles, RPG’s, light machine guns), whose principle responsibility is to carry the attack to the enemy and engage them, one on one.
3. Rehearsal – Practice, Discussion, Intelligence coordination and dry runs to insure all individuals and elements understand their responsibilities and most important, the disposition of the other elements in relation to each other and the target.
Any coordinated attack that contained the two first elements would have been rehearsed for reasons that should be obvious even to a complete novice. The Base of Fire Element which is designed to soften up a target can be deadly if not coordinated with the Maneuver Element. This means a pre-designed communications/signal plan telling the Base of Fire when to cease fire, or shift to make a safe avenue of approach for the Maneuver Element.