"Kilcullen Article About Infantry Combat" Topic

Stumbled upon this PDF "Rethinking the Basis of Infantry Close Combat" ( PDF link ).

Famed Aussie LtCol David Kilcullen discusses running some very controlled training iterations in the UK, as well as real-world experience in Timor and other historical examples. He reinforces what is taught at the Infantry Officers Course: "Suppression is the key infantry task." If you don't "win the firefight" via overwhelming suppression your assault/maneuver element is unlikely to succeed without prohibitive casualties. But if you can break the enemy with accurate and heavy fires, even a small assault element can achieve overwhelming results.

Should be an especially interesting read for game designers of reinforced platoon up to battalion-level games: might need to tweak some mechanics about suppression and force ratios or something.

Interesting article, thanks for the pointer!

Very interesting, thanks for posting this.
Cheers and good gaming.
Rod Robertson.

Yes, thanks, very interesting and valid indeed !

quite fascinating!

Gotta admit that Infinity combat really seems to follow that idea. Win the firefight to be able to move.