OutDorsMan
20th December 2012, 10:20 AM
No nonsense instruction.
Unassisted Evasion Considerations (http://mountainguerrilla.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/unassisted-evasion-considerations/)
Paramilitary partisan operations, whether area security patrols or offensive combat operations in defense of the community, will generally not be limited to just the immediate area of the survival retreat/guerrilla base area. A projection of force into surrounding areas will help to ensure the security of the immediate area. Whether operational patrolling is conducted as a projection-of-force demonstration, rapport-building with the local civilian populace in order to attain auxiliary support and intelligence information, or even just the initial attempt to “bug-out” to a safe haven, during the conduct of irregular small-unit operations, personnel will constantly be at great risk of becoming separated from the rest of their element, leaving them isolated and “on-the-run,” possibly in hostile-controlled or denied areas.
Groups and individuals who are in deadly earnest about their training for preparedness will incorporate and emphasize evasion-survival training into their overall training program regularly. It’s great to have a plan, and know what to do when the plan goes right (as that very famous “SF” officer was fond of saying, “I love it when a plan comes together….”). It’s even better to know what to do when a plan goes to shit.
Realistically, individuals should be trained and prepared to survive and evade for extended periods of time (72-96 hours at an absolute minimum, depending on METT-TC considerations), over long distances, depending on how well developed their networks are, in order to reach a location where they can be recovered by specially-trained CSAR (Combat Search-and-Rescue) operational cells within their network. It may even be necessary for individual evaders to make their own way to a known friendly-controlled area without outside assistance. It is absolutely critical to consider unassisted evasion recovery as a contingency during ANY unconventional warfare planning. Failure to do so is hubris and overconfidence at best. At worst, it’s just flat fucking stupid.
(While the stories published by Andy McNab and Chris Ryan of the British SAS, concerning the “misadventures” of patrol Bravo Two Zero during the Gulf War are often contradictory-and both actually contradict the official AARs each man provided the British Army, according to some sources within the Ministry of Defence-Ryan’s account, “The One That Got Away,” may be an outstanding look at what unassisted evasion could be like. I have probably two dozen evasion memoirs in my personal library, going back to World War Two, and every single one shares one common theme: unassisted evasion sucks goat’s ass.)
MUCH more at the link.
why?
snip:
Any and every irregular war-fighter element should develop an EPA as a standard annex to an operations order ( if you think you’re not going to need an operations order, you’ve never conducted a patrol for real. “Proper prior planning prevents piss-poor performance.”). Neither “We’ll fight to the death! No retreat!” nor “We’ll just run like scared bitches and make it up as we go!” is acceptable, nor will either be effective in the real world, regardless of your best Walter Mitty imaginative hallucinations
Unassisted Evasion Considerations (http://mountainguerrilla.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/unassisted-evasion-considerations/)
Paramilitary partisan operations, whether area security patrols or offensive combat operations in defense of the community, will generally not be limited to just the immediate area of the survival retreat/guerrilla base area. A projection of force into surrounding areas will help to ensure the security of the immediate area. Whether operational patrolling is conducted as a projection-of-force demonstration, rapport-building with the local civilian populace in order to attain auxiliary support and intelligence information, or even just the initial attempt to “bug-out” to a safe haven, during the conduct of irregular small-unit operations, personnel will constantly be at great risk of becoming separated from the rest of their element, leaving them isolated and “on-the-run,” possibly in hostile-controlled or denied areas.
Groups and individuals who are in deadly earnest about their training for preparedness will incorporate and emphasize evasion-survival training into their overall training program regularly. It’s great to have a plan, and know what to do when the plan goes right (as that very famous “SF” officer was fond of saying, “I love it when a plan comes together….”). It’s even better to know what to do when a plan goes to shit.
Realistically, individuals should be trained and prepared to survive and evade for extended periods of time (72-96 hours at an absolute minimum, depending on METT-TC considerations), over long distances, depending on how well developed their networks are, in order to reach a location where they can be recovered by specially-trained CSAR (Combat Search-and-Rescue) operational cells within their network. It may even be necessary for individual evaders to make their own way to a known friendly-controlled area without outside assistance. It is absolutely critical to consider unassisted evasion recovery as a contingency during ANY unconventional warfare planning. Failure to do so is hubris and overconfidence at best. At worst, it’s just flat fucking stupid.
(While the stories published by Andy McNab and Chris Ryan of the British SAS, concerning the “misadventures” of patrol Bravo Two Zero during the Gulf War are often contradictory-and both actually contradict the official AARs each man provided the British Army, according to some sources within the Ministry of Defence-Ryan’s account, “The One That Got Away,” may be an outstanding look at what unassisted evasion could be like. I have probably two dozen evasion memoirs in my personal library, going back to World War Two, and every single one shares one common theme: unassisted evasion sucks goat’s ass.)
MUCH more at the link.
why?
snip:
Any and every irregular war-fighter element should develop an EPA as a standard annex to an operations order ( if you think you’re not going to need an operations order, you’ve never conducted a patrol for real. “Proper prior planning prevents piss-poor performance.”). Neither “We’ll fight to the death! No retreat!” nor “We’ll just run like scared bitches and make it up as we go!” is acceptable, nor will either be effective in the real world, regardless of your best Walter Mitty imaginative hallucinations