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…Fastroping provides a rapid and safer means of insertion than jumping from a low hover. With practice, Marines can accomplish a fastrope insertion with minimum exposure. c. Large-Scale Helicopterborne Assaults. For large-scale assaults, rooftop…

…Blasting loopholes can result in a large hole that can easily be seen by the enemy. (b) Loopholes should be cone-shaped to obtain a wide arc of fire, to facilitate engagement of high and low…

…For example, an ordnance specialist inspecting a captured, handcarried, surface-to-air missile launcher concludes that the threat has no effective low-level air defense. The assessment is based on the fact that the weapons system…

…Chemical agents usually settle in low places, making sewers and subways hazardous hiding places. A prepared defender should include some collective protective measures in the defensive network. Personnel using fans may be able to put enough…

…Unconventional forces will often use our restrictive ROE and the noncombatant population to their advantage when devising an urban defense. (See FM 34-130, FM 7-98, Operations in a Low-Intensity Conflict, and Chapter 6…

… High impact/Low probability analysis.  “What If” analysis.  Red Hat analysis.  Counterfactual reasoning. DEVIL’S ADVOCACY A-4. Devil’s advocacy is a process for critiquing a proposed analytic assessment, judgment, plan…

…linkup A meeting of friendly ground forces, which occurs in a variety of circumstances. *local security The low-level security activities conducted near a unit to prevent surprise by the enemy. *main battle area The area…