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We have been operating on an asymmetrical battlefield for quite some time but the day will come where we will have to focus back on our more conventional TTP'S.
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As a SGM, I'm curious if this is a probing question for simple discussion or one that is serious.
Does your S1 clerk do the same job as a rifleman? I would venture to say that when you ask both of those soldiers to tell you about their deployments, you will most certainly get a definitive view of who was on the 'front line' and who was not.
Conventional, assymetical, coin... Call the fight whatever you wish up in the strategic levels, but rest assured there is most certainly a fight going on, and not everybody fights it.
We all have our roles in this fine machine we call the Army, but to think for a second that there isn't a front line on the modern battlefield, to me, shows either a disconnect from what the soldier on the ground is doing and those who are supposed to command him, or a lack of ability to relate terminology of old to fit the modern war. Both of which are disturbing thoughts.
Does your S1 clerk do the same job as a rifleman? I would venture to say that when you ask both of those soldiers to tell you about their deployments, you will most certainly get a definitive view of who was on the 'front line' and who was not.
Conventional, assymetical, coin... Call the fight whatever you wish up in the strategic levels, but rest assured there is most certainly a fight going on, and not everybody fights it.
We all have our roles in this fine machine we call the Army, but to think for a second that there isn't a front line on the modern battlefield, to me, shows either a disconnect from what the soldier on the ground is doing and those who are supposed to command him, or a lack of ability to relate terminology of old to fit the modern war. Both of which are disturbing thoughts.
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Front line refers to any area where the fight exists, not solely and exclusively to linear combat. Although, in linear combat these lines are presumably much easier to identify, the modern battlefield does not look like it did in WWII.
As we pushed through in the invasion in 03, it's easy to see where the FLOT, or Front Line, or whatever you wish to call it, was. When we established FOBs and JSSs, the book definition of 'front line' gets a little bit harder to identify, but every offensive operation you kicked out from there had its own FLOT, did it not? Every raid, every key leader engagement, every route clearance mission, every patrol, they all had their front line trace relayed back to the battle captain. No, it doesn't resemble the same conceptual idea as it did back in the old days, but again, there most certainly is a front line.
As we pushed through in the invasion in 03, it's easy to see where the FLOT, or Front Line, or whatever you wish to call it, was. When we established FOBs and JSSs, the book definition of 'front line' gets a little bit harder to identify, but every offensive operation you kicked out from there had its own FLOT, did it not? Every raid, every key leader engagement, every route clearance mission, every patrol, they all had their front line trace relayed back to the battle captain. No, it doesn't resemble the same conceptual idea as it did back in the old days, but again, there most certainly is a front line.
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