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Originally posted by BlackGriffen: 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. |
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.