As an engineer whose closest contact with an enemy was a surprised sea lion on Sealion Island, I am definitely no expert on this war or the next. But humour me and suppose we wanted or felt we needed to intervene in somewhere like Somalia or Yemen. I hope we don't, but if we did, I think perhaps the aim of such an intervention might be to keep a lid on things without getting any more involved than we had to, much like NATO's limited involvement in Pakistan with Reaper etc. If we we going to do that then surely our aim has to be monitoring or taking out key people, communications and supply routes. Or something like that but I haven't read AP3000 recently... So we become the embuggerence factor to the bad guys and not the other way round. To do that is somewhere like Somalia or Yemen perhaps it would be nice to have:
1. Some good Int
2. A Navy to control the sea lanes
3. Some good ISTAR (perhaps even some MR...)
4. Persistent or fast air (ISTAR-integrated) to do what needs doing
5. Substantial SF to do the many bits air can never do
6. Some rotary and tac AT to support the SF
7. All the bits needed to support the above
8. A government with a clearly defined strategy
I can see more of a role for typhoon in this particular scenario than infantry.
Last edited by Clearedtoroll; 19th Jan 2011 at 13:11.
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