TDG Tuesday: The Other Side of the COIN

I started this series, TDG (Tactical Decision Game) Tuesdays, to get you more in the mindset of how you could potentially handle a given tactical scenario with a limited amount of resources and manpower. My goal is to get you to read these scenarios and think about what resources you have available, what sort of scenarios you might encounter, and what gaps you need to fill in your equipment/training.
I will use the basic 5-paragraph operations order format, or SMEAC, to present the scenario as follows;
Situation: Disposition of all friendly, hostile, and adjacent forces.
Mission: What we are trying to do.
Execution: How we are going to do it.
Admin & Logistics: Who/what is getting where and how.
Command & Signal: Who is in charge and how they are communicating.

TDG 7: The Other Side of the COIN

Note: This TDG builds off of TDG 6: COIN. If you haven’t already done that exercise, get your answer to that TDG and then come back.

Situation: Guerrilla Warfare Scenario. You are the local guerrilla commander in charge of a small platoon of volunteers fighting the PLA occupation in your county.

  • OPFOR Situation: The local PLA garrison occupies a FOB just NW of the town of Eminence, as shown on the map. After several successful guerrilla attacks on PLA forces in the last two months, our informant has told us that the local garrison has received some additional units (see TDG 6: COIN).

  • BLUFOR Situation: Following your successful attacks on the PLA, your group has grown in size from the original 17 to a platoon of 30 fighters, broken into three small squads. You are encamped in the forest in the vicinity of Midridge, regularly displacing your base camp when necessary. You are running low on 5.56 ammunition for your AR-15s, but thankfully a successful raid on a PLA checkpoint has yielded some captured weapons and ammunition.

  • Independents Situation: The civilian populace is largely supportive of your guerrillas, and those who aren’t still don’t like the PLA invaders. Local police units have been taken over by the Chinese, but only cooperate as much as they need to. Police checkpoints rarely search vehicles for contraband like they’re supposed to, unless a PLA supervisor is present.

    • ANTIFA, emboldened by the communist occupation and with weapons/training from the Chinese, are essentially a state-sponsored gang at this point. They have a small camp outside the PLA FOB, and they occasionally drive around in large numbers bullying the local populace.

Mission: Based on your analysis of the EMLCOA (Enemy Most Likely Course Of Action) in the last TDG, determine what changes you will make to your operations planning to counter potential enemy actions/changes in SOP.

Execution: Up to you.

Admin & Logistics: Your platoon now has the following resources:

  • 25 AR-15s

  • roughly 500 rounds of 5.56 ammunition

  • 4 captured QBZ-95 rifles

  • 1 captured QBB automatic rifle

  • 700 rounds of 5.8×42 ammunition

  • 1 captured PKM light machine gun with 300 rounds

  • 6 hand grenades

  • 1 underslung grenade launcher mounted on a QBZ, with 10 rounds of HE ammo

  • the same 2 pickup trucks and 5 quads from TDG 5, but with very low fuel.

  • 4x FRS walkie-talkies

  • 10x Baofeng UV-5Rs

  • 2 PVS-14 NVGs, and 2 captured NVGs

Command & Signal: Up to you, be mindful of the enemy’s SIGINT capabilities. Remember, not all communications are electronic.

Once again, the point of this and last week’s TDGs is to drive home the fact that your enemy will adapt their tactics to defeat you, and you must be constantly anticipating those changes so you can be prepared to modify your own tactics. Failure to adapt to your enemy will get your people killed.

Feel free to post your answers in the comments and discuss.

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  1. VAdeputy April 20, 2021 at 06:48

    Tuesday is quickly becoming my favorite day of the week…..
    At this point, with low fuel for my vehicles and running low on ammo for my force’s primary weapon system, im going to attempt to avoid large scale contact with the PLA guys. Im going to us our contacts in the supportive community to ascertain where and when would be the next Antifa “struggle session” against the local populace. Im going to wipe out as many of those fuckers as i can and take as much ammo and on-person supply as i can as well. I’m assuming the PLA ain’t gonna give their secondary “forces” rifles and ammo from their own stock, so im sure the local commies have been equipped from raided gunstores and such.
    The PLA goons are using Antifa as a tool to terrorize the local populace and keep them in line, as well as maybe their local eyes and ears reporting back to the PLA commander. Taking a large number of them out deals a blow to the local PLA sense of security, on top of our raids in the past several weeks (in the other scenario).
    Not to mention, wiping out the local bullies not only got me some extra boolits and siphoned fuel, it got me a couple additional local recruits for my Mossy Oak militia with some long range deer rifles ……

    • Johnny Paratrooper April 20, 2021 at 10:27

      Don’t forget to grab some of the Antifa leaders for interrogation. And figure out who their families are. The locals will appreciate this. And it makes sound sense to avoid the strong enemy, and engage the weak. You might get lucky and snatch one of their logistics members. Usually the well fed ones, and the women, are familiar with the supply situation.
      Technically and tactically, it’s always an option to hold tight for a long period of time and wait till the enemy goes back to sleeping on guard duty and being bored out of their minds.
      Personally, I second the strike hard at the goon squad option. Basic Battle Drill 1 kinda stuff. In and Out.
      Maybe leave a couple guys with the Grenade Launcher and the QBZ-Machine Gun behind to spray and pray at the PLA QRF. And tell them to hold fire, and exfil if the police show up.

      • Northman April 20, 2021 at 11:53

        Great post per usual. I’d say Antifa is a FRAGO at best, and almost certainly completely compartmentalized from PLA operations though. I like your option of holing up, and lulling a sense of security, especially immediately post escalation.
        I’d prefer, like you, riding the momentum and ratcheting up the volume in this scenario. Our focus need not be on the one big raid or target. Their force pro has a serious morale problem, and volume will exploit that, especially volume that can get a more consistent stream of resupply.

      • Karl Dahl April 20, 2021 at 13:13

        Agreed – it’s time to shelve the current MO and focus on low cost, low risk, high reward targets, and opportunities for resupply and growing the network. Avoid the big boys for now, but go after antifa and local collaborators. It’s a good time to be quiet and sneaky – no boom boomy big actions unless they’re pure win. Additionally, it’s time to learn how the FOB is supplied, which is likely to be less well guarded / monitored now than the routes to the front.

        • Juri April 20, 2021 at 15:01

          Antifa is not low risk target. They did Russian Revolution and killed 13 million gun owning WW I experienced anti communist fighters and finally put up Soviet Union. Later Stalin killed those snowflakes, put his cadre in charge and from there we know cold eyed Soviet apparatchiks.
          So don`t underestimate handclapping weirdos. PLA will probably fight on your side. Chinese also had 60 million dead by their Antifa made cultural revolution and they don`t want to give Antifa WMD.

          • Wallace the Reptilian Overlord April 20, 2021 at 17:56

            Learn English.

          • Juri April 20, 2021 at 18:34

            Why ? Mr. Chauvin spoke good English, had a guns and training . Did this helped him ?

      • KBYN April 20, 2021 at 20:19

        I like the idea of targeting ANTIFA instead of the PLA, both to remove a thorn in the population’s side, and to eliminate a source of HUMINT for the enemy.
        Instead of assaulting ANTIFA when they’re gathered, I would flip the local drug dealers and prostitutes in order to learn the ANTIFA members’ patterns of life. At opportune times I would start quietly snatching the scrawny little bastards one or two at a time, taking them wayyyyyy out into the wilderness for interrogation, then planting them in remote forest graves. I would avoid making any statement (especially anything symbolic or gory like displaying the bodies), lest the PLA react by punishing the locals who support the rebels. The goal is confusion, doubt, and demoralization.
        Just make ANTIFA members vanish without a trace.
        The hookers & pushers would then be used to spread disinformation. “Yeah, last week during pillow talk, Ashton was straightening his green hair and talking about leaving for Los Angeles. He hates it out here in the middle of nowhere, and he never gets to liberate fascist televisions or Air Jordans anymore. I’m not surprised he’s gone.”
        Sympathetic local police could be persuaded to gundeck their forensic investigations, in order to downplay any suspicion of kidnapping and reinforce the desertion narrative.
        Steady, effective demoralization of ANTIFA survivors, coupled with justice meted out upon the captured, will result in a dwindling supply of ANTIFA surrogates. Before long the PLA will be unable to portray themselves as saviors.
        Just a moral victory? Yes. But moral victories waste no ammo, and such victories can shake loose a juicy military opportunity when the enemy reacts.

    • MikeJ April 20, 2021 at 11:59

      Agree 100%. The Antifa cadre is more than likely the enforcement and harassment arm of the PLA, making the PLA look as if they “mean no harm”. Since ammunition is low, fuel is low, and mobility might be shanks mare against a mechanized force, it seems logical to kill two birds with one stone; possibly get a resupply from the AF cadre, and work for the good of the local populace by eliminating the primary threat against their persons. The question is, where are they?

  2. Northman April 20, 2021 at 10:15

    This is based on the PLA’s MLCOA, which I project as focusing on SIGINT, area denial with personnel assets and the ISR drones especially around the convoy routes, as well as some HUMINT collection around the town to rat out the MAMs. (No, not using ANTIFA. They would stick out like a boner in a speedo and are f#cking useless for that roll.) I liked them more as a way to get the populace tolerant and compliant of the PLA occupation by providing them “protection” from ANTIFA, with that “protection” slipping when attacks occur or the population gets a little to displeased with their occupiers.
    BLUFOR: Several targets of interest:
    1) Counter ambushes on the 70% strength infantry patrols/ OPs.
    PROs: Resupply. Crush the logistic unit’s morale with more of their casualties.*
    *This target is ripe for spreading morale contagion in the PLA ranks. They’re already pissed and depressed from taking losses on the front. From the reports, they’re just a small push away, and it could have devastating internal consequences in camp.
    CONs: BLUFOR might be attacking into strength with these guys. They’re combat tested. If their morale is stronger than suspected this will just be like trying to run through a brick wall.
    CARVER Score estimate: 4-4-3-3-4-4 ~ 22
    2) ISR Drone/ pilot
    PROs: Taking this capability away cuts away significant means of area denial and reconnaissance.
    CONs: Are either the Drone or its pilot not on site? Alternatively either they could be on site, but to secured for BLUFOR to be capable of
    CARVER Score estimate (variable depending on accessibility): 4-1-4-3-4-4 ~ 20
    3) Radio Communications Infrastructure
    PROs: PLA has no or very limited comms.
    CONs: Likely easily replaced and difficult to gain access to critical comms infrastructure.
    CARVER Score estimate: 4-1-2-4-4-4 ~19
    4) Stationary Checkpoints
    PROs: Easier target. Source of Resupply with an uncomplicated raid.
    CONs: Establishing pattern of operations by BLUFOR. Great decoy for a counter ambush by PLA forces.
    CARVER Score estimate: 2-4-1-5-5-5 ~22
    5) Convoy Ambushes
    PROs: Easier target. Source of Resupply with mission success.
    CONs: Establishing pattern of operations by BLUFOR. Great decoy for a counter ambush by PLA forces.
    CARVER Score estimate: 4-3-1-4-4-4 ~20

    • Mike April 20, 2021 at 18:53

      CARVER score. I learned something new today, thanks!

      • NC Scout April 20, 2021 at 19:21

        You didn’t know CARVER?

        • Mike April 20, 2021 at 19:53

          No, I’ve never used it. I was never involved in mission planning beyond the platoon level, and even then it was always in support of a bigger effort and I didn’t get to choose my targets. If Marines do use CARVER, it was above my pay grade.

  3. Michael April 20, 2021 at 14:49

    Well so far you’ve been successful avoiding being Real Time Tracked with long endurance Drones. Somehow the Chinese version of Special Forces-Rangers has been ineffective in tracking you down. Your getting low on ammo but that’s life.
    It’s a Supply Depot with a depleted mech infantry unit supporting it. I wonder how many of your people understand Chinese Language? HOW would we know they are “Demoralized”? I’d not make plans on the hope they are somehow close to moral collapse or such.
    The main weakness I see to take advantage of is TIRES. Even Military Run Flat Tires with the vehicle built in compressors can only run so far and so fast when the Tires are badly damaged. Those Supply Trucks and Armored Cars are rolling on Tires.
    Shanks mare? How about Bicycles? Anti-tire is easy Caltrops of tig welded sharpened angle iron, bits of those road guardrails remade and so on. Not spikes actual blade caltrops. Tears a chunk out of that tire.
    If every convoy had to roll in daylight slowly enough to watch for and stop to clear anti-tire caltrops you already have a small victory. Maybe you’ll get a potshot at the dismounted troops before the boogie.
    Keep hitting those tires, they are NOT MADE in the USA so they have to order them from China and all that. The units DEPENDING on those supplies will not be happy.
    Anybody built a Parabolic Mic to LISTEN for Drone Propellers yet? With the occupation a lot of the background noise like civilian airplanes and such is gone. Anything you hear is probably Chinese.
    Pompous Ass Out.

    • JD April 20, 2021 at 16:04

      Military run flat tires (and most “civilian” run flat tires) do not rely on onboard compressors. Typically, the civilian ones are made with a very heavy sidewall, which is capable of supporting the vehicle weight. The military runflats (or even runflats for trucks/SUVs) are typically a three part insert which is bolted onto the rim inside the tire. No onboard compressor is needed.

      • Michael April 20, 2021 at 16:57

        Yes JD I have to agree however I know some of my units vehicles had compressors for the tires that allowed us to flatten them a little for sand AND in the case of a smaller leak keep the tire somewhat inflated until you could stop to replace or get back to base. That tire was *still* ruined and in the Sandbox sometimes hard to get replacements for. They were SUPPLY Trucks so they did not have Run flats, just standard military tires. Even so we could run for a long time with construction nails in the tires running the compressor.
        I also know that damaged run flat tires have a limited speed they can be run AND are damaged while running flat. So sharp bladed caltrops will very hard on those Armored Cars escorting and the lesser tires of the supply trucks are going to ruined pretty quick.
        Oddly when I looked at the picture of that Chinese Armored Car I SAW the tire pressure system just like on my Supply Trucks. Maybe for tire pressure adjustments?
        Thus the Hit those tires idea. Pretty soon that Supply Unit is going to NEED shipments of tires to do THEIR Job of supplying the combat units in the area.
        The best part of this tactic from my POV is despite the long endurance drones they CANNOT watch every bit of that road so WITH a Parabolic to listen for Drone propellers you can dump the caltrops and split.
        Got a way to hide from FLIR guys? Your going to need it as Chinese Drones have it.
        BTW WHY Did the Chinese NOT USE their Drones Artillery Spotting Laser to drop some laser guided 120 MM Mortar shells on you? It’s been interesting looking up Chinese Drones capabilities. Our Military hasn’t fought against a near peer army for how many years (decades maybe)?

        • JD April 20, 2021 at 18:40

          I was an 11B (USA Infantryman). We ended up tactically acquiring tires from our mechanics after they started “refusing” to allow us to take spare tires because we just “get them shot up” (true story). I’m mainly looking at the run-flat tires from a viewpoint of getting out of the kill zone and then dealing with repair.
          As far as the US military, the Army (from what I remember and could Google) uses inserts (for HMMWV at least and I would put money on other vehicles -LMTVs etc- as well). There may be an onboard compressor for minor pressure adjustments, but your not going to put out enough pressure in the event of a catastrophic puncture.
          https://www.army.mil/article/187923/run_flat_machine_helps_employees_get_soldiers_where_they_need_to_go
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          FLIR is a PITA to deal with (hell just look at how it can be used in Search and Rescue in the civilian setting if they have a general idea of where to look(. This is a major problem of the Peer / Near Peer fight. We would commonly take the CLU for the Javelin systems thermal capability along for observation and surveillance from OPs/blocking positions/etc. In long term positions, we emplaced a TOW system for thermals.
          When you start looking at some of the discussions about area denial drone swarm systems, Peer/Near Peer modern warfare gets scary REALLY quick

  4. JD April 20, 2021 at 16:47

    Mike,
    Prior to answering this, I have some questions for clarification of the OPFOR situation and stance.
    1) What is the posture of OPFOR when off-duty? Are they buttoned up on post like most US troops were in OIF/OEF outside of the Green Zone, or was it more similar to WWII/Vietnam where troops could visit off-base establishments during non-duty hours/on pass?
    2) How much, if any, of the garrisons supply is obtained through the local economy? Specifically food items, fuel resources, municipal services (in particular utilities such as electrical, water, sewage, etc).
    2a) The local community members – How willing are they to engage in acts of passive/active non-aggressive resistance?
    2b) Has the PLA enacted any kind of rationing? Do they monitor/verify stores received/sold logs? How is this done? Do they have the store operators report to the base periodically or do they go to the stores to inspect their books?
    2c) Is there prostitutions locally? Do the prostitutes service the PLA/ANTIFA?
    2d) For locals who provide services to the FOB, how are they vetted? How is access to the FOB gained by local contractors? What is the sentiment of the local contractors?
    3) The local ANTIFA chapter – Are they truly local or are they transplants to the area? Do their families reside in the area in public or are their families housed on the ANTIFA compound? This extended to extended family (parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, IN-LAWS, etc).
    4) In regards to the local ANTIFA chapter – Questions 1 & 2
    5) PLA and ANTIFA- When conducting security patrols, what is the standard size and composition of the patrol? Do they pull effective security? How extensive is their security posture? When they conduct a halt, how quickly do they put our 360 security? LP/OPs at RON positions? How do they handle vehicles coming up to the NO-PEN line? Vehicles that have accidentally breached the NO-PEN line? Are VBIEDS in common usage? When going out and coming back on patrol, does the OPFOR take the same route or vary their route?(Looking at the general technical and tactical skill of the OPFOR)
    6) PLA & ANTIFA – How have they reacted to sniper fire? Shoot and Scoot type engagements? Is there any evidence of vehicles equipped with anything that resembles exterior mounted microphones?
    7) When the PLA has suffered casualties, how have those casualties been evacuated? Ground convoy? Air?
    8) Status of OPFOR CAS assets? Any sign or heavier armor?
    8a) Are the grenade launcher (assuming GLG-10) rounds HE or HEDP? (I know you said HE, but just confirming).
    9) OPFOR radio communications (I am assuming FHSS and encrypted).
    10) Status of outside support (either from other areas or other countries) for logistical.
    11) How secure is the partisans food supply and logistical food train?
    12) We are moving into a period of warmer weather, how easy is it for the Underground to start sources cold weather equipment now in preparation of next winter?
    13) Status of Ft. Leonard Wood?
    14) We have NODs. Do we have any IR aiming devices (PAQ4c, PEQ2/15, etc).
    15) What kind of rifle optics? Any telescopic scopes? Have any of the ARs been setup as SPRs? Do any of the partisans have formal experience as a DM or similar role? Any long range shooters? Reloaders? (Looking for people who actually know how to shoot at distance – We only have enough 223/556 for 20 rounds per rifle. Ammunition IS NOT going to people who don’t know how, and when, to shoot).
    16) When our people get hurt, how easy is it for us to get them to higher care? What happens when we access higher care? Do they have to go to a formal hospital or do we have an organic hospital section we can take them to for long term or surgical care?
    17) Where are our people’s families?
    18) Does the PLA conduct any sort of community meetings (think Shura Council type stuff from OEF)? What is their security posture during these?

    • Mike April 20, 2021 at 19:44

      1) The PLA doesn’t have the United States’ experience in COIN, so assume they’re still living in the FOB when not manning a checkpoint or on patrol.
      2) Assume none. This scenario likely immediately follows a WROL survival scenario anyway, so resources in the area will be scarce and the PLA probably plan to extend good will to the people by restoring the infrastructure that they helped to destroy a couple of months ago. They may get water from the local river, but that’s it.
      2a) You’ll need to find ways to discover this on your own, the guerrilla must always have a level of uncertainty with the leanings of the local population.
      2b) No, not yet. This scenario assumes that the PLA is still fighting a conventional war further to the NE, so that’s going to be their priority for resources before they consider stability operations.
      2c) Maybe, it stands to reason that in the absence of a law banning it that it would happen.
      2d) Assume that the FOB is run entirely by PLA personnel. It’s a FOB/logistics hub supplying the effort at the front, not a permanent outpost at this point.
      3&4) Most are local, but they’re the local “outcasts” who have always seen themselves as rebelling against the prevailing local culture. This is why they don’t live among the population, they live in a small camp next to the FOB.
      5&6) You will need to determine this yourself through experience. VBIEDs might be used, but SVBIEDS definitely will not. PLA patterns will, as pointed out, change as you learn to adapt to them, hence the point of this and the last exercise.
      7) Ground vehicles. The PLA do not have the resources to spare for casevac helos in rear areas, remember they are still fighting a conventional war a couple hundred miles away.
      8) No CAS/armor that is not organic to the units already listed
      9) I know as much about chinese comms as you do.
      10&11) The guerrilla group is self-sustaining, living off the land, their own day jobs (for the part-timers), and occasional donations from the supportive populace. There is no outside support, logistical or otherwise.
      12) The local guerrillas live here, they likely already have cold weather gear.
      13) If you couldn’t tell from the OPFOR situation in the last two TDGs, likely neutralized as the front is further away.
      14) maybe 1 or 2 from guys who already had them. From OSINT pictures, I don’t see a lot of PLA running lasers on their QBZs unless they’re in a specific night fighting demonstration.
      15) assorted AR setups. Get creative with your guys. Although I’d like to, I don’t have the time to write an entire novel each week detailing exactly who you have and what gear they run. End of the day it doesn’t matter that much, as long as everybody you have now is dedicated and trains together.
      16) Something to consider, for sure. Hopefully you have a local doctor or veterinarian who’s sympathetic to the resistance.
      17) at your homes. You live in your AO, you’re guerrillas not special forces.
      18) Depends on your estimate of enemy course of action in the last TDG.

  5. 'mudge April 20, 2021 at 19:55

    I’m light on Ammo, I’ve scored a couple of victories.
    I’m going to plant some bogus story in town about folks organizing an anti commie protest somewhere remote near Eminence. I’m hoping Antifa and and some PLA show up and I’m going to ambush them on favorable terrain at the time of my choosing. I’m thinking Jacks Fork canoe and campground so we have a water exfil if needed. We have our out of fuel vehicles parked together to help tell the story to make it look like a gathering. Some vehicles booby trapped. Antifa shows and we let loose.
    We use our wins as a recruitment tool and spend time training our new recruits until things cool down.

  6. JD April 20, 2021 at 23:07

    ****Mike – I know it was a bunch of questions – I’m assuming that an insurgent who wants to live beyond 0.02 seconds in an engagement, I would seek out intel prior to engagements. Insurgents don’t have to win, they just have to not lose.****
    I’d focus on a couple of areas. One major area would be to take multiple pages from Von Dach. Sympathetic local personnel (obviously the resistance, but also there should be a HEAVY effort in influencing the local populace) should do whatever they can to indirectly negatively impact the occupying forces (groceries should give them the worse of available products, baggers should damage purchased goods, materials suppliers should give damaged goods, etc… basically do whatever you can discreetly to make life miserable for the occupying forces without it be directly attributed to yourself).
    If I can pop a gate guard or tower guard, I’d do so. Snipers have a disproportionate impact on personnel.
    If rationing has not been established, I’d establish strong relations with supply sources (grocery, hardware stores, etc). Stock up on non-perishables goods now in anticipation of hard time to come. We must be careful to not create an excessive burden on the local population as to prevent anger towards our organization (starving the people to feed us will piss them off).
    Another area of influence would be family of ANTIFA/Collaborators. Place pressure on the extended family, as well as the targeted individual. Shun them, when they walk into a place/business, all conversation ceases. Give them the cold shoulder in social settings. Basically, take a cue from the Dutch resistance to the NAZI’s during WWII. Collaborators and those associated ate social outcasts. Effort should be targeted on influencing wives, who can then indirectly influence the men.
    If prostitution is currently happening, make connections with the prostitutes for intelligence purposes.
    If the FOB is self sufficient this cuts off the opportunity to gain intel from contractors.
    I’d monitor the PLA / ANTIFA crowd for weaknesses/gaps in tactical engagements. As an insurgent, I get to pick the time and place of engagements. I’d avoid becoming decisively engaged and would focus on sniper/shoot & scoot engagements.
    If I can fuckup a MEDEVAC convoy, I’d do it in a heartbeat. For the Grunt, knowing MEDEVAC is coming is HUGE. Knowing that MEDEVAC might not make it, is a ENORMOUS combat multiplier for the insurgents.
    SVIEDs not being used likely takes away from a propaganda win of the OPFOR opening fire on Grandpa with glaucoma accidentally blowing the checkpoint and getting lit up. Don’t devote many resources to recording civilian/OPFOR interactions.
    ***Logistics***
    This is a major issue. I’d need to do everything I can to securely establish SOLID logistical resources and to expand my network into neighboring areas. If we can’t eat, stay warm, etc, we can’t fight. Advanced medical care is another critical resource we MUST develop. Fighters NEED to know that if they are wounded, they will be cared for. Same for cold weather gear (personally, I can be cold or wet, but not both, without a shit ton of bitching about it…. When troops stop bitching about a problem is when its a problem). Cold weather gear is easier to obtain when its warm and people aren’t thinking about it….. Think about it now and help your people in the future.
    If possible, get the families out of the local conflict zone. If nothing else, it prevents family from being used against your people. When the family moves, the fighter who stayed behind is reported as having died/divorced/etc to provide for a relationship break.
    *******
    In regards to #18 specifically.
    This is in direct relationship to targeting a HVT. Conduct recon and attempt to determine what the enemy pattern is. If possible, I’d assign one or two “good” shooters to try and knock out the OPFOR commander. They would engage from 250m to 350m, from inside a structure. Ideally, from a 2nd story well within the structure (ideally, a hallway leading to a room, and through a window. If I have “no-see-um” netting (sourced from a camping tent or backyard canopy) I string that up in front of the window I’m ultimately shooting through.

  7. Anonymous April 21, 2021 at 10:04

    5

  8. Boon April 21, 2021 at 10:08

    With 3 attacks the PLA will be allocating considerable resources to our location, regular patrols and drone activity would be a concern along with ruthless interrogation of locals. I would look at a static base camp as a risk and would consider relocation of the base camp while working on fuel and ammo supplies. My efforts would be to place snipers about for patrols.

  9. GhostTiger April 21, 2021 at 15:36

    Sorry, late to the game and haven’t had a chance to read the comments yet. This is a small town in a lightly populated area well outside of range of any significant population centers, with the possible exception of Poplar Bluff. My first job would be to try to secure logistics for the team and establish any number of fall back headquarters. Mid Ridge is an ideal place for a guerrilla force, especially considering it is basically centrally located to the entire AO, with any number of roads and trails through the area providing a means of access. Securing shallow drafting boats would be high on my priority list, and I would make a list of cabins in the area known to store canoes and John boats and beg, borrow, or steal them for our use. I also know that there is no shortage of wild game, including wild boar which are easy to trap and harvest. Water is no issue in this area, but winter is always coming and during that season overhead cover will become sparse in all but the planted pine groves. That means going underground for shelter. Without giving too much away, I would tap into the emergency stores that I know are already located throughout the area. I would also plan to use the mine shafts under my feet for a means of access, specifically mapping out ventilation shafts and caching ropes, carabiners, and harnesses near them. In fact, those mines would serve as a pretty comprehensive logistics supply point of their own, providing more than just shelter but also possibly including sources for fuel (the equipment they mine with is, after all, powered by diesel fuel). To add to this, I would ask the team members to share the locations of any caves they may know about in the area. It’s not uncommon for the locals to think they are the only keepers of the location of a favorite cave or two, and they may be. Best to tap into the local knowledge base.
    Once logistics is ironed out (I know it’s never really ironed out), I would split my focus between figuring out where enemy supplies are going to and coming from, and getting as much information as possible on exactly who the ANTIFA members are and who their families are/where they are located. Reducing the ability of our enemies’ local proxy forces can keep my troops busy and their morale raised while we try to understand the bigger picture and determine where the front lines are and what we can do to tip the scales of the PLA’s entire operation in our favor. Ultimately, if we cannot help impact the overall outcome of the PLA’s occupation, they will eventually dig in and expand their operations. It’s only a matter of time before front line troops direct their attentions to pockets of resistance like ours. Might be a good opportunity to put out careful feelers to extended family and friends outside of the area to find out what the bigger picture is. This might be a good place for HF to pick up some of the slack.

  10. GhostTiger April 21, 2021 at 15:50

    Oh and one other thing. It’s unlikely that at least the bigger ISR birds are flying out of a nearby airfield, but it’s possible that the smaller ones are. I’d look for the location they are flying from and task some of my best shooters to make life miserable for them. Drones require specialized and often highly sensitive equipment to fly. A few rounds through antenna dishes, air conditioners, generators, and even the control components/surfaces of the drones themselves while on the ground would make for juicy targets. Double bonus points if we can get rounds put through any of the mechanics or drone operators themselves.

  11. Mas Casa April 21, 2021 at 20:02

    I want to conduct any action away from my base camp although I still want to maintain my camp’s mobility.
    At this stage I too would focus on building popular support and adding to whatever information networks are already available in order to try divine the enemy’s next steps.
    I want to keep the enemy off-balance, reactive. I would dispatch a team with the enemy weapons and the PKM (my longest range weapon) to harass the enemy FOBs. Someone else likely knows better than me, but could the PKM be used to lay a beaten zone inside a FOB?
    Ideally, my team could position themselves and engage the FOBs to get the PLA and Antifa FOBs firing at each other. Even if there are no casualties inflicted, the friendly fire incident may cause a lot of friction and make them believe they’re also not safe in their own FOB.
    Hopefully they keep forces patrolling close to the bases, which may mean less forces conducting offensive ops.

  12. LFMayor April 22, 2021 at 09:53

    Not a bunch from me, there were lots of good ideas you guys already put down.
    Thirty dirties in one place is going to be hard to keep hidden for very long. Noise, light, sanitation discipline are going to end up getting you noticed. I’d look to disperse into a few additional locations and then foot traffic comms, nothing available for elint sniffing until the H hour of the next operation.
    Antifa gets special attention. If they’re local then the whole family gets a night letter and if that doesn’t work… Bad choices make for bad business so treat it like a business.
    The next operations should be focused on getting arms and ammo or we’re going to be throwing rocks.

  13. EdOffensive April 22, 2021 at 13:10

    Admirable comments thus far! I choose to add a certain focus. 1. Wipe out Antifa. 2. Secure more materiel. And as you will see, I will need to explain myself.
    1. Wipe out Antifa, first by decapitation. Why search and destroy their leadership? Because it is not local. It is connected to a national and international funding, intel, and supply network. Everybody knows George Soros and son Jonathan fund Antifa, but few know that Soros and the other funders and directors are jews. It is a jew organization all the way down to the leadership of local squads. That’s how important it is. And they pretend to be Whites, so they very easily infiltrate White communities, gathering intel, poisoning the minds of the local people, and recruiting young disaffected Whites who are also ignorant about jewry. We decapitate their local organization, and likely the nonjew recruits will immediately disperse and become nonthreats. However, if any leaders rise up out of the dispersed, even if they’re Whites, we’ll have to disappear them, too. We don’t want to go after their other Whites, though, as they are from families who are not our enemies and we don’t want to turn them against us.
    Also, Antifa is a soft target. The PLA would not be escorting them everywhere with armor, etc. In fact, the PLA soldiers also are ignorant about jewry and would not care about losing the supposedly “Americans” of Antifa. Top Chinese leaders know very well about jewry because they have interbred with them for at the very least 100 years, documented and proved. (China, Russia, and the USA governments play a shell game of “Good Cop / Bad Cop” around the world — since before we were born.)
    2. We need more weaponry and ammo. We need to expend some effort on establishing an ongoing supply of all necessities.
    Next step, of course, is further direct attacks on the PLA.

  14. Alex Lund April 23, 2021 at 13:48

    Hello,
    I am from Germany and my military experience is limited to doing my 15 months tour of duty, playing wargames / Roleplaying games (board / pen and paper / PC) and reading a few books (Major von Dach Total Resistance, Supplying War by von Creveld, Sun Tzu). So, please be merciful
    What about turning Antifa and PLA against each other?
    You know, if Antifa and PLA visit the local whorehouse why not make a few of them drunk and the next morning we have a few dead ones.
    “No, PLA officer, the Antifa riled up your Private and called him a fascist as he was not 100% secure in communist ideology and then your Private, drunk as he was, went for his knife and see, what happened.” or something like that.
    For single PLA cars with only two or so occupants: lets have a beautiful, scantily clad female have her car breakdown. Bingo, either two PLA ready for interrogation or two corpses. And then let them disappear. I heard that wild boars eat everything.
    Does the force have bows / crossbows? Lets drop a tree across the street and when the PLA car emerge from the car, silent kill. Or fire at the radiator. Dead soldiers and damaged equipment.
    I once read about net tactic. You know you fire three bullets at a location, the enemy dismounts but everybody is gone. Then the enemy drives on and three km later the same happens. Death by a thousand cuts.

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