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Afghan guerrilla warfare, by Ali Ahmad Jalali and Lester W. Grau.[b]
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Originally Posted by FOX_111
I think a good aproach for airsoft would be the one used by Mujahadeen commanders in the 1970 Afghan war with the russian.
Since most of the mujahadeen where farmers and other jihadist, all they wanted was some trigger time on the infidels. They did not want to participate in long, complex operations. And keeping them organised and in position was as complex as herding cats.
So they kept it simple. With limited comm, they organised simple but effective groupes that each had simple orders and erea of activity.
To study their SOP, I highly recommand the book: Afghan guerrilla warfare, by Ali Ahmad Jalali and Lester W. Grau. Very detailled battle report with maps and commentary by the person involved in the command of each battle, when available.
I use some of it's principle when organising milsim with people not part of team that are not cohesive on their own.
Also, having team releave other team on boring but essencial mission is a big plus. It allow a team on Surveillance to have some trigger time, it make some movement on the field for the opfor to respond, and it create a momentum of action. + it keep moral high.
Moral is something rarely taken care off in airsoft. When a team is successfull on it's ennemy, the ennemy moral get low, for real. And the bitching start, and the chairsofters start to camp in the base, chatting about their newly aquired musle break that is sooooo nice... A good CO will notice this shift in morale and exploite it. Either by attacking demoralised troop to gain more gorund or objective, or to send demoralised troop on candy mission with rapid and easy success.
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