Gaza 2 ?

Just saw this as well. How do you fight suicide bombers??? This war is a bloodbath.

2 solutions to avoid suicide bombings :
1/ Don't invade a muslim country
2/ Kill them all (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...war_baghdad_123)


It's too late for 1/

Oh gosh, I would hate for you to have had to live during WWII

These are Homocide Bombers.

These are brainwashed people.

Not entirely true. Suicide bombers are ineffective if they have to trade one for one. IOW, they'r only really effective against concentrated formations. The solution, then, is in how your troops disperse themselves over the battlefield. I'd guess if your troops generally tried to keep 12-20 feet between themselves, the most a suicide bomber could get was one and a few injuries.

I'm not sure how realistic this strategy is, though, because it comes from playing video games . I would have to know more about how the military actually operates to say how feasible this is. For instance, it would make them more vulnerable to conventional attacks or mob violence.

The other way is to make the price of doing it so heavy that no one else would consider doing it. I'm referring to the mafia like tactic of killing the family of the bomber. I doubt how effective that would be, though, because these cannon fodder are bread on the mentality of revenge. Killing more people only offers more people more of a reason to want revenge. Israel seems to be having trouble figuring this one out.

You're right, though, kill them all could theoretically work. The problem with that is that it requires a level of barbarity that would make any country that did it a pariah. Would you trust a nation willing to kill an entire people?

The last strategy is to just tough it out. Take the hits, and continue to try to stem the tide of bombers by winning over the population. If that's not possible, and it would take a lot to make it so, then you just pull out and leave them to their own devices.

It would seem that suicide bombers are a problem with a binary solution: you can go to one extreme or the other, anywhere in between does little to solve the problem.

BlackGriffen

Standard Operating Procedure for US Army troops is to keep at least 5 meters between individual soldiers unless conditions absolutely require being closer together. It's something that is constantly emphasized in training. The reason this has always been the standard is because of the constant threat of indirect fire - grenades, mortars, artillery. Suicide bombs will require some changes in the way troops interact with civilians, but in terms of the need not to bunch up there isn't any particular change from what soldiers already know.