"Gunfighting Is A Thinking Man’s Game" Topic

I seem to think clearing a room WWII style involved a grenade and a room broom (Sten) or trench broom (Thompson). I believe "clearing" in those days was making sure everything in the room could not fight back. Modern tactics allow for the saving of noncombatant occupants.

Room clearing is basically down to a science at this point in time.
You'd better believe that gunfighting is a thinking man's game! Myself and anyone else with any training on the matter will most likely agree unanimously there. The amount of forethought that goes into minute-long actions is truly staggering to the uninitiated.

Thing is you never clear a building with just one individual.

Nope you would want at least three – five working as a team.

Plus in today's world I would be blasting open any door that is closed since a closed door could be booby trapped.

So put a very small charge on it and blast it open.

Also grenades work wonders at room clearing after you blast the door open.

But the issue of tunnel vision is there.

I remember back in basic training on the rifle range where I was focused on the distance targets that I did not see the 25 meter target popped up at the same time as the 300 meter target.

I shot the 300 and then spotted the 25 meter target and shot that as well before it dropped back down.

Did shoot expert that day and did so for the rest of my time in the army (I.E. 21 years).

Clearing room to room against an untrained force or unprepared might be one thing but when you have to go up against a highly trained and well prepared force then the dynamics of the battle field changes.

Currently our forces have been lucky that their foe has not had the training that a more formal military would have, not saying at all that it is still very dangerous job.

If our forces or any force for that matter had to go up against a well trained very disciplined military force.

example; the Parliament house in Berlin Germany 130-150 Germans barricaded in the building, 20,000 Russians lost their lives taking just that one building.

Yes the more training our forces have the better, I agree, in my days toss in a grenade followed by a Sten bolt locked back, and the trigger wired back as well, after it ran empty then we would go in

We also had more then one clearing team in a building and we would try to enter the building from the highest level that we could better to let the enemy run down and out then to trap them on an upper floor, and we would blast through the floors rather then use the stairs.

Yup, been there, done that, 27 year of service