BUILDING SMALL TEAMS: DEVELOPING COMBAT-EFFECTIVE RESISTANCE ELEMENTS

[EJR914]

BUILDING SMALL TEAMS: DEVELOPING COMBAT-EFFECTIVE RESISTANCE ELEMENTS

Perhaps the two most often cited perceived weaknesses of all resistance movements are the numbers arrayed against the resistance by regime security forces, and the ability of regime security forces to utilize technological advances to attack the resistance elements.



While numbers always matter, there are historically proven methods to increase the quality and combat-effective power projection of smaller forces, especially the tactical maneuver elements that constitute the lethal ?tooth? end of the fighting force. Human factors are the critical components that must be exploited to compensate for a disparity of mass within the battlespace.



Through the exploitation of fundamental ?soldier power,? a resistance force can leverage human factors and basic soldier skills to build combat power even in the face of larger, more organized, and better-equipped security forces. Durable, combat-effective small-unit elements are built on the foundation of good morale, esprit de corps, and unit cohesion.



Morale is a largely subjective psychological state that encompasses many factors, including respected leadership, logistical and material support, history and tradition, weather, casualty rates, and the reaction to exposure to stress. Morale, an individual psychological factor, can be defined as the enthusiasm with which a member of a group participates in the activities of that group.

Much more here at his website:  http://mountainguerrilla.blogspot.com/2012/02/building-small-teams-developing-combat.html

He nails it again.  This one is mainly on morale, unit cohesion, and other things that must be done to create a functioning unit.

Do some you military guys that have been there and done this want to comment on the article?  What do you guys think?  Is he right?

[UnBroken]

Unit cohesion is a must. That's why in shtf, small things like giving someone your m&m's  or helping them set up camp. Will mean more due to the certin situation we will all be in


In combat you may hate the asshole next to you and think he is a complete tool but because he did few things like help you or you two.trained toghter or just simply he was around. It means you trust him more then your enemy.

Just one Grunts .02

[EJR914]

Part II is here!

BUILDING SMALL TEAMS: DEVELOPING COMBAT-EFFECTIVE RESISTANCE ELEMENTS, PART TWO: DEVELOPING TRAINING
Properly conducted tactical training is preparation for interpersonal violence: combat. Improperly conducted training is a waste of time, energy, and limited finance. It is essential that potential future resistance elements train how they will fight. Training must be planned to ensure that not only are all necessary individual and collective tasks are fully learned and practiced, but that the training is as realistic as safely possible. Combat is harsh, unforgiving, and unpredictable, but well-planned and executed training can help to mitigate the hazards of combat by preparing fighters to face them. Training must be kept relevant and real.



Properly planned training should first concentrate on common skills. Many individual and collective task skills are common to all, or most, potential missions that a small-unit resistance element will face. Learning and mastering these common critical tasks should always be prioritized. Only after the most commonly necessary tasks have been mastered should training branch out to more esoteric skills (don't worry about ?how to conduct a 'precious cargo' recovery operation before you know how to conduct a basic combat patrol. Don't sweat multiple hostile target engagements before you can hit a single target at a given range with your primary weapon. --J.M.) Training should be progressive. The successful execution of advanced tactical skills is simply a sublime mastery of the fundamental basic tactical skills. Even these basic collective tasks skills cannot be effectively conducted though, if the requisite individual task skills are not first mastered.



Training should always focus on eliminating the weak links in operational capacities. Whether individual or collective tasks skills, training should always be evaluated, regularly and objectively. Follow-on training should focus on those skills that were evaluated as being the least skillfully executed (If you don't have a training plan, follow that training plan, and evaluate that training, you're not training; you're just fucking around. --J.M.). As the clich? states, ?Amateurs train until they get it right. Professionals train until they cannot get it wrong.?

Individual task training, as the foundation of successful collective task training, is the most critical aspect of a practical, effective tactical training plan. Individual critical tasks encompass a wide range of necessary fundamental skillsets, such as combat weaponcraft and marksmanship, unarmed combatives, medical aid, communications, field-craft, and tactical skills. A well-designed training plan should describe the individual training tasks required accomplish the perceived future mission. Doctrinally speaking, the experience of centuries of training war-fighters has demonstrated that the ideal format for expressing these skills is the task-conditions-standards method. A well-developed and organized training plan, utilizing the task-conditions-standards methodology will also include a specific, step-by-step sequence for teaching, executing, and evaluating these skills.

http://mountainguerrilla.blogspot.com/2012/02/building-small-teams-developing-combat_08.html

Any other opinions on the article?  What do you guys think?

[WhiskeyJack]

A good article to be sure bro. This is the kind of info a community based response will require to be successfull.