Against The Odds

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't America the first country to use cover in battle? Like the British or whoever would be in a line and we'd just take cover and slaughter them? I forget where I read that but does anyone know when that old style of fighting stopped? I can't imagine fighting like that. Just seems stupid to me.


The Americans were the first to use guerilla warfare back in the Revolutionary war I THINK! Maybe someone could expound on that
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Sorry, didnt see Scoots post
 

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We weren't the first, but we adopted that style to help defeat the British. Usually milita fought like that while the Contential Army still stood in lines for battle. Featured a lot in the movie The Patriot. However tactics did change and the Army fought less conventional over time.

[video=youtube;_Da3EgZUA0Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Da3EgZUA0Y[/video]

this one scoot

Where can I get that?
 

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The Americans were the first to use guerilla warfare back in the Revolutionary war I THINK! Maybe someone could expound on that
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Sorry, didnt see Scoots post

To expand on my post, Guerilla warfare was hardly a new concept in the Revolutionary War.. Just the empires didn't use it. The Americans got the idea from the Native Indians who used that type of fighting against the British in the French and Indian War.
 

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That version has messed up subtitles I think. Bearsbud are you cool with torrents? If so I can link you one later.

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naaah..Im not cool with torrents..I thought it might be on TV or at netflix.etc
 

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Is anyone still following this series?

I watched two of them today..

1..Battle Of Hue City...During the TET offensive 10,000 NVA troops seize the town of HUE Vietnam. Our fearless leaders promptly dispatch 300 marines to recapture the city. And that's just what they did!....In spite of being ordered not to use any indirect weapons such as Artillery, Mortars, Ship fire etc. The US politicians didn't want the men to destroy any historic Vietnam buildings...That order stood until some Colonel told the troops to disregard those orders..Then they got the support they needed and eventually pushed the NVA troops out of the city and kept it under US control



2...Those Damned Engineers ...During WWII a support group of the 291st Engineers finds themselves face to face with the German assault of 90 tanks in the Battle of the Bulge and successfully blow up enough bridges to keep the Germans from advancing and capturing the port city of Antwerp. They successfully thwarted Hitler's hopes of changing the tide of the war..They became the most decorated Engineer outfit in the entire war
 

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