Urban warfare, building to building, room to room - the most difficult of mission tactics for the MILITARY, let alone for civilians. It's the worst of tasks.Paladin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:47 amResponding to an Active Shooter is the most difficult mission to perform of all the
missions skills assigned to either patrol or tactical officers. Why? Active Shooter
response requires a practiced and rehearsed plan ahead of time. Not only does the
plan need to be rehearsed, but officers need to take special equipment to ensure that
after the threat is neutralized and the medical contingencies encountered are
addressed. Essentially you must be prepared to perform a cold hit on an unknown
target, a task that requires a degree of skill to be successful.
It was such a meat grinder for our troops during their advance across Europe during WW2 that they went to clearing structures by systematically blowing holes into the exterior then interior walls of buildings with bazookas or charges in lieu of venturing into the threat of kill zone shooting galleries at doors and in the hallways behind them.
The sort of resources and ROE customarily used by the military cannot be employed for this, for obvious reasons. It's been fortunate so far, if you can call it that, it's been disordered, mentally disorganized people who have pushed these sort of attacks out of some sort of delusion or unchecked impulse to act, who have no plan, no honed tactics besides "attack". But what if there comes a day attackers appear who are quite organized and have a plan, a worst case scenario comparable to the Beslan school siege, the Dubrovka Theater takeover. Another whole level of concern, particularly in the face of the porous border we have, with who knows what coming across it.
