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Is overwhelming fire power a good thing?

April 26, 2017good overwhelming power thing

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Is overwhelming fire power a good thing?

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No, not always. Viet Nam, 1970. 8 RAR are in the Long Hai hills, a notorious NVA/VC hidey hole. They were making good progress. 34 members of D445 have been killed. All of D445 are in the area. Normal Australian procedure is close with the enemy and engage him. Beat him where he is. Not to be. 8RAR are pulled back 3,000 meters and all the local hamlet leaders are advised that a B52 strike is about to happen. Guess what. By the time (24 hours later) that all the paper-work and red tape had been attended to D445 were long gone.