Yes Ihave heard of Balubas, so has the army and they've since learnt After Barret and Smallhorne at least) no tto send out isolated underarmed groups, when the Balubas attacked they found a section minus who'd left their Bren on the transport and wandered casually over to the roadblock.
It's unlikely that vehicles will be going anywhere alone, never mind the fact that almost every vehicle being sent will carry at least a mag on a pintle, that the Irish soldier is a lot wiser about ambushes and that the standard weapon is a thirty round automatic.
Bravo, you're talking about this as if it was something happening in Chatham street flats (it isn't fifteen year olds are still making do without firearms) this is a military operation.
Unless you expect the DF to restrict itself to keeping the peace at tea parties there's always going to be people willing and eager to try and kill peacekeepers, the fact is that stoned teenagers are less capable of harming a ready unit than straight thinking adults, claiming that they'll be some super dangerous force when they have no means of support other than exercising violence over the people the UN force will be protecting is just a little bit alarmist.
I hardly think the army is going into this thinking that a little hug and a talking to will neutralise the militias but the fact is the force being put in place will be more than able to surpress them.
It's unlikely that vehicles will be going anywhere alone, never mind the fact that almost every vehicle being sent will carry at least a mag on a pintle, that the Irish soldier is a lot wiser about ambushes and that the standard weapon is a thirty round automatic.
Bravo, you're talking about this as if it was something happening in Chatham street flats (it isn't fifteen year olds are still making do without firearms) this is a military operation.
Unless you expect the DF to restrict itself to keeping the peace at tea parties there's always going to be people willing and eager to try and kill peacekeepers, the fact is that stoned teenagers are less capable of harming a ready unit than straight thinking adults, claiming that they'll be some super dangerous force when they have no means of support other than exercising violence over the people the UN force will be protecting is just a little bit alarmist.
I hardly think the army is going into this thinking that a little hug and a talking to will neutralise the militias but the fact is the force being put in place will be more than able to surpress them.
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