Tactics
Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 9:02 am
I heard of this guy a few years ago, I read his instructions in a special forces manual I aquired somewhere. He did his work in the 1700's. He was a real thorn in the French's side and also fought against the native Americans. Basicaly he ran a guerilla army years ahead of anyone else. His ideas were soo good that they were actually printed again for the vietnam war to give to the us soldiers.
All his tactics still work almost 300 years later
a couple of faves of mine are...
II. Whenever you are ordered out to the enemies forts or frontiers for discoveries, if your number be small, march in a single file, keeping at such a distance from each other as to prevent one shot from killing two men, sending one man, or more, forward, and the like on each side, at the distance of twenty yards from the main body, if the ground you march over will admit of it, to give the signal to the officer of the approach of an enemy, and of their number etc..
XV. At the first dawn of day, awake your whole detachment; that being the time when the savages choose to fall upon their enemies, you should by all means be in readiness to receive them.
Read the rest of his story here
http://www.rogersrangers.org
All his tactics still work almost 300 years later
a couple of faves of mine are...
II. Whenever you are ordered out to the enemies forts or frontiers for discoveries, if your number be small, march in a single file, keeping at such a distance from each other as to prevent one shot from killing two men, sending one man, or more, forward, and the like on each side, at the distance of twenty yards from the main body, if the ground you march over will admit of it, to give the signal to the officer of the approach of an enemy, and of their number etc..
XV. At the first dawn of day, awake your whole detachment; that being the time when the savages choose to fall upon their enemies, you should by all means be in readiness to receive them.
Read the rest of his story here
http://www.rogersrangers.org