Taliban Marksmanship in the NYTimes <HR style="COLOR: #eaefe3; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eaefe3" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->An interesting article in the Times's Blog, "At War," about marksmanship issues among Taliban fighters and the effect it has on their tactics and our troops: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/...-marksmanship/ When discussing issues of marksmanship that would be considered basic by many here, the author gives a nod to his gun-savvy readers and acknowledges that he is educating a largely gun-illiterate crowd in the Times's readership. That's nice to see. Hope some of you find it as interesting as I did; I'll need to look further into this guy's Times blog.
Very interesting. And his point about how the ANP and police suffer from the same deficiencies. This has also come up a couple times in Doonesbury-The Sandbox-Military Blog, Milblogs for Military Families. If/when we pull out of the stans, the taliban will remain and become resurgent simply by virtue of patience and religious extremism. I am a pessimist, obviously, about wars conducted by pickup idealistic troops. Oh, wait!! That might be us --
Great article. One thing evident is how much damage a set of armed determined individuals can do even when handicapped by bad skills. Makes you understand why tyrants fear the armed citizen.
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