The shooter is quickly dispatched, but more insurgents are suspected to be in the walled campground ahead.Ī fire support element (marksman and two LMGs) is left behind while the assault team (all the rest of the section) advances ahead. Walking down the patrol route the section comes under insurgent fire from its left flank. No vehicles near, no indirect fire support, just the organic weapons of the section. So here is this entry, to reinforce the habit of safe close combat.Ī British infantry section on a dismounted patrol. I confess that when I am in virtual combat, grenades are the least thing in my mind. Griffith mentions in several parts of the book that the cold steel of the bayonet has been replaced by the hand grenade.
Killing the enemy from the distance with superior firepower looks like an SOP nowadays.Įnough digression. I'm not of the intellectual stature to challenge anything that I'm reading, but it looks to me that close combat is the last option in modern combat. Napoleonic massed volley fire? Just to wear down the enemy and then deliver the (only thing decisive) bayonet charge. His main point is about how virtually every major decisive victory in military history can be attributed to shock action. Griffith gets very controversial in this book. I'm reading Paddy Griffith's Forward into Battle and it's quite a journey of critical reading.
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