RE: Examples of the atrocities caused by Islam
July 6, 2014 at 10:02 am
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2014 at 10:16 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That's generally the line that religion offers us in it's defense, sure. Did you ask the guys with the AK's whether or not they thought the guys in the ditch shared their religious beliefs? Uh-huh........
To remove some of the hero and mythmaking with regards to combat, and speaking from experience. Surviving a firefight is less about guts than it is about the number of rounds thrown downrange. There are a finite amount of projectiles in a finite space. As the rate of fire increases the ratio of space filled by projectiles increases. The more people fill that space, and the greater their "target capture" or "sight picture" relative to the angle of enemy fire determines whether or not they get hit by a random or non-random round. In general, insurgents open up with an overwhelming rate of fire (a tactic they cribbed from us, to put it bluntly) and if that doesn't work, they just fade away. All the tanks and guns and guts in the world isn't exactly going to secure you a victory against a tactic like that (which we should know well enough from experience).
As another way of explaining this, take a look at medal of honor recipients. Overwhelmingly post-humous. They had guts oozing out of their eyeballs, completely fearless. They were, to a man - for a brief period of time - hateful spirits of violence moving across the battlefield annihilating their enemies almost by accident. And yet - they are still dead.
I suppose, in short, I'm pointing out how little you seem to know about the realities of armed conflict.
To remove some of the hero and mythmaking with regards to combat, and speaking from experience. Surviving a firefight is less about guts than it is about the number of rounds thrown downrange. There are a finite amount of projectiles in a finite space. As the rate of fire increases the ratio of space filled by projectiles increases. The more people fill that space, and the greater their "target capture" or "sight picture" relative to the angle of enemy fire determines whether or not they get hit by a random or non-random round. In general, insurgents open up with an overwhelming rate of fire (a tactic they cribbed from us, to put it bluntly) and if that doesn't work, they just fade away. All the tanks and guns and guts in the world isn't exactly going to secure you a victory against a tactic like that (which we should know well enough from experience).
As another way of explaining this, take a look at medal of honor recipients. Overwhelmingly post-humous. They had guts oozing out of their eyeballs, completely fearless. They were, to a man - for a brief period of time - hateful spirits of violence moving across the battlefield annihilating their enemies almost by accident. And yet - they are still dead.
I suppose, in short, I'm pointing out how little you seem to know about the realities of armed conflict.
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