SASless,
Brit tactics vs US tacics:
I was in Baghdad for a while last year and was involved in many operations and convoys, working alongside US troops and British ones (yes there are Brits in Baghdad). Without exception every single convoy I went on with the US forces had an incident; conversely every convoy I went on with the British forces was without incident. Please note that this was same routes, same times, same size convoys, same time of the month etc. The only real diference was the tactics used. We tried to advise the US commanders that a more restrained approach would reap dividends but it fell on deaf ears. Furthermore in the whole time I was there I did not see a single foot patrol in the Green Zone, the only view the US troops had of Baghdad was either from the top of a Humvee travelling at 60mph doorhandling poor Iraqis off the road or through a 4'' by 4'' vision slot......
Oh and the US troops had an unnerving habit of pointing .50cal machine guns at everybody including me
Empirical evidence doesn't lie.
