Archive for September, 2007

Professional Soldiers are Predictable

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Kill Ten Rats has a great writeup on the “myth” of the “unpredictable PvP foe.” It’s a good read, and echos something from way back in my military days.

See, the same is often true for real life military tactics. We had “Standard Operating Procedures” for virtually everything- how to react to an ambush, how to breach a building, how to secure an operations post. When the platoon leader was going on a recon, he left a “5 point contingency plan” to those left behind. 13 years later, I still remember it.

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