Comments by "N Velsen" (@nvelsen1975) on "What is a long-range missile? – The hysteria about ATACMS and Storm Shadow" video.

  1. Not entirely. There have been fights with a lot weirder rules. Actually quite a lot of them. The UN imposed a mandate on the Dutch 'fighting' in Srebrenica that involved them not being allowed to fire even one shot. ....from their Uzi and FN minimes, heaviest weapons they had. ....Against Serbo-Russian forces with T55 tanks supported by artillery. This 'only cuddling and stern warning allowed'-approach, plus a French betrayal in not sending airstrikes of course didn't exactly work out, resulting in the Srebrenica Genocide. And our Afghanistan mandate only allowed defensive fighting. So how do you secure a valley against swarming insurgents with rules that dumb? Well you put down an OP right at the mouth of the valley and basically put up a big sign saying "Please shoot at me before proceeding". ...Which the insurgents invariably obliged us in ...After which we could 'defensively' hunt them down and deal with them, after they all they'd started it and we're just 'defending' 😆
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