"Houthi Cross-Border Attack Into Saudi Arabia" Topic

Not just your typical "kill some guys at a mountaintop border outpost" raid….this looks like a sizeable light infantry force advancing through an entire Saudi town: youtu.be/SCgCw0U5FDA

Note that their individual movement techniques, fire discipline, and fieldcraft are noticeably superior to most of what we see coming out of Iraq. I always wonder what the training regimen for competent irregular forces is like. Do they have something like semi-professional NCOs, or training & readiness manuals (probably not in PDF format LOL)? How do they enforce "What 'Right' Looks Like"?

Anyways, should make for a nice scenario: roughly a company of aggressive irregular light infantry attacking a town overlooked on the defender's side by high hills. Defenders have quite a few M-ATVs, probably with sub-par crews….some HUMVEEs, a few other wheeled vehicles I can't ID immediately, and maybe an M113 or two.

I couldn't identify the M-ATVs. Good job there.

I you can believe the Saudis then there's the possibility that the Iranian Pasdaran is involved in the war. The Pasdaran specialises in light infantry action and they have been advising the Iraqis and Syrians. I would say that the Houthi are better fighters than the Iraqis and Syrians! Looking at the Saudi order of battle on Wikipedia I get the impression that the Saudi troops we're seeing are from either their light motorized infantry brigades or Saudi National Guard who are light motorized troops too.

The wiki says that the Saudi National Guard uses equipment that is not in RSLF use and I didn't see the M-ATV on the army wiki, so maybe those guys were National Guards?

Well … lets see if all that US training and US/NATO equipment does the SANG any good ?