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I hope I'm not intruding here but-
In military situations, aren't the 'stop shooting' and 'accurate shooting' and 'force to meet threat level' also very important?
It seems to me that they would be unimportant (unless you are conserving ammo) when fighting conventionally- you kill the guy in the badman uniform and that's fine. If you spray and hit some other guys in the same uniform, that's also fine.
However, in the engagements the US and her allies are facing on a regular basis, it seems that the rules have changed somewhat. If you apply the above to an engagement with irregular forces in an urban environment (lets say Bakara market or something similar), every time you miss your mark and drop a civilian, you can make an enemy out of his family/clan/tribe/sect. Of course, the most important thing are the lives of our soldiers, but in an unconventional war, the hearts and minds are a significant objective too, right?
I'd really appreciate hearing people's views on this as it pertains to my senior thesis.
Also, I want to repeat that our soldiers lives will ALWAYS come above the lives of others.
Thank you very much,
Solid
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