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Originally Posted by theking
Thumbs up. There should have been/should be...many more of these type of Operations in place of huge unwieldy forces like were used in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Navy SEAL's...the Army's DELTA Force...the Army's Special Forces teams...the Army's Airborne Rangers..the Marine's Division Force Recon and the Airforce's CCT...are all highly trained small mobile units. All can operate on the land in the air and the sea.
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But you just named the exact reason this will never happen.
The forces are Highly mobile and often once on the ground do a number of things.
they get their own transportation. No Hummer or big US truck. They dont use Hell fire missiles or tanks or anything like that. They are fast hard hitting and a HUGE money savings. So the War machine would not be making 1/16th of what it is using only teams like this. They get in and out as fast and clean as they can. no prolonged gun battles.
I read some place and will try and find it that the soldiers on the ground in Iraq at the beginning would shoot more than 50K rounds ( do the math ) each between combat and training/ weapons work.