Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Iraq - Current rules of engagement
Even "ready, aim, fire" spoken slowly would be healthier than this...
In the Washington Times, James A. Lyons Jr. tells us about the "Rules of Engagement":
"The current ROEs for Baghdad -- including Sadr City, home of the Mahdi Army -- have seven incremental steps that must be satisfied before our troops can take the gloves off and engage the enemy with appropriate violence of action.
(1) You must feel a direct threat to you or your team.
(2) You must clearly see a threat.
(3) That threat must be identified.
(4) The team leader must concur that there is an identified threat.
(5) The team leader must feel that the situation is one of life or death.
(6) There must be minimal or no collateral risk.
(7) Only then can the team leader clear the engagement."
