When you're in a firefight, how accurate your aim is won't matter at all unless you know this about your enemy.
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How to Win a Firefight
Being able to manipulate your weapon and aim really well is all well and good. But when it comes to really being able to win in a firefight most people forget this one crucial element. Study your enemy.
That's right. Knowing your enemy's tactics will help you gain the upper hand that you need in order to defeat them in a firefight. Because of that, today I wanted to share two stories with you that will help you gain more insight on the matter.
Furthermore, I'm hoping that the take-away that you get from reading this article is more than just knowing your enemy's tactics, but discovering a few tactical secrets yourself.
Police Stand Off
In this scenario, I want you to be aware of two police officers that are working to apprehend two criminals. The stand off quickly escalates to a firefight whereupon one bad guy turns and runs into the forest (we'll call him Bad Guy 1).
Luckily, one of the police officers (we'll call him Officer A) recognized the criminal's actions as a potential flanking maneuver. Predicting his enemy's intentions, Officer A ran after Bad Guy 1 and flanks him instead. This effectively ended the firefight and very likely saved their lives.
If Officer A had not stopped him, Bad Guy 1 would have been able to attack from the side while Officers A and B were firing at Bad Guy 2 from the front (creating an L-shaped ambush.)
Breaching Tactics
To clarify, this is done so that a 360 degree security is met in order to prevent an unexpected attack from another angle as they prepare to rush the building.
The Game Changer
There is a little bar in a place called New Mexico. It was owned by a biker gang (not the good kind). Furthermore, they were so numerous that the local law couldn't really do much about it.
As a result, they had to infiltrate and stop the gang from within. Which they were successful in doing.
The first thing that the spies learned was the biker gang had a silhouette of a stack on the other side of the wall (and the only location possible to breach the building due to its layout.) This meant that the gang would know exactly where to shoot right through the walls if law enforcement ever tried to breach the building.
Because of this, the law had to change their tactics and effect the raid from inside the bar using their spies and officers posed as men drinking in the bar.
Lesson Learned
- If you don't know what your enemy is up to, then you won't be able to effectively respond and counter
- Anyone can know and use infantry tactics against you - so you better learn how to identify them
- Just because a long-proven tactic works, doesn't mean that it will conquer every scenario (for example, staking up on that bar would have been a slaughter fest)
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