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07-31-2016, 05:12 AM | #42 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/93: Cops and Lawyers
Ah, OK. To UK sensibilities, a unit doing that isn't a police unit at all.
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07-31-2016, 07:09 AM | #43 |
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Not every organization has every unit represented. That's the same of police and of militaries.
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But it's not like the article is limited to the probable, or describes normal policing activities. Policing proper isn't tactical combat at all and wouldn't be represented as such. A very small-sided engagement of SWAT or Dismounted Police vs. Gunmen or Terrorist Shooters is a modern policing concern, although not a common one (and police forces for this purpose do exist in the UK). Riot Police vs. Rioting Mob or potentially Organized Protesters also arises at times. Almost any Tactical Combat that isn't one of those two things means the situation has gone entirely off any sort of law enforcement rails. (It also might be impossible to convert most UK police to Dismounted Police Officers due to them not having any firearms training? But that's kind of beside the point.)
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1.) Tactics -- The use of firepower and movement to defeat/destroy enemy units in battle (and probably personnel) or seize key terrain to promote the former. Could also be seizure of key terrain for its own sake -- port of Cherbourg, for example . . . 2.) Operations: the use of battle and maneuver within a theater of operations to attain strategic objectives. 3.) Strategy -- the use of military force to gain national objectives. 4.) Policy -- deciding what are the #!%%! national objectives. |
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Re: Pyramid #3/93: Cops and Lawyers
So, is there any utility for military urban combat in the Mass Combat article, or it is really just a collection of funky police, terrorist, and rioter units?
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The difference between policing and warfare is critical and amazingly often overlooked by the naïve. In the vast majority of all such situations, the police are not trying to kill the rioters, they are trying to contain, restrain, repel, or otherwise break up the riot. They may want to divert the riot away from potential victims or important facilities, or contain it to one place. |
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I am told, however, it had the worst sales :(
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07-31-2016, 09:55 PM | #50 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/93: Cops and Lawyers
It's really just a collection of units, plus the LEO modifier used for the police units. Basically does nothing if you want military-vs-military operations in urban terrain.
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