The Debate About Snipers

[Peter_Suciu]

I decided to "take aim" at the comments made by Michael Moore that "snipers are cowards." I wrote a piece on the myth and history of snipers for ArmchairGeneral:
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[joerookery]

He really did backtrack didn't he. D

 

[b.loree]

I already made the comment to Pete...."we have not heard from him (Michael) or about him in years." It was in MHO simply a publicity stunt to get some "press" out there, some notoriety. His entire raison d'etre is generating expose documentaries and notoriety. Why else would anyone in the US risk criticizing a true American hero? FYI.....I have read the book, seen the movie and also did internet searches to broaden my knowledge on this subject.

 

[poniatowski]

Sniping is a rotten, dirty, difficult job. It takes a certain type of person (men and women) to do it. Give me a tank any time... that way, I can sit behind Chobham and 'snipe' from three kilometers... or better yet, Artillery, ten or more miles. It's those wimpy drone 'pilots' who are sissies. (Kidding!) :wink:

Ron

 

[Tarquin]

This debate has been going on (albeit in a different form) for hundreds of years. Knights considered archers/bowmen as without honor because of the anonymity of their killing - a knight could be done in by a "bolt from the blue" rather than in a face to face encounter. War is brutal, even if we try to establish rules for it. Just my two pfennigs.