Griffith
Banned
I notice that special forces(who are always generally considered the cream of the crop in armies) fare so horribly when given tasks normally assigned to infantry. Here are examples:
1)Rangers in Italy in WW2
I read of cases in which Rangers were cut off from the main force and ended up taking shelter in buildings in certain places in Italy. When the German infantry assaulted these buildings these Rangers were using, the Rangers were quickly slaughtered and those who survived the assault were easily captured as POWs!
2)Special Forces Camp in Khe Sanh
I read of how when the NVA assaulted the special forces camp nearby Khe Sanh, in less than one hour the Special Forces camp was overrun with the many Green Berets killed in the battle and the remaining surviving one being forced to retreat from the camp to the main bases in Khe Sanh!
3)GCMA in Dien Bien Phu
For those of you who don't know the GCMA were the French equivalents of the Green Berets in the Indochina War. During the siege of Dien Bien Phu there were several GCMA units in the French fortress, When the counterattack to take back Eliane and Dominique took place, GCMA units were proved to be useless in the counterattack being among the first to be expelled from the counterattack. By the time the counterattacks took place the GCMA were all but knocked out of the battle.It is interesting to note that , the GCMA commando troops who were garrisoned near the main hospital, were seen as the most useless unit in the fortress by Pierre Langlais, the garrison's dynamic commander.
How come special forces perform so badly in basic infantry functions such as defending places or directly assaulting enemy positions?
1)Rangers in Italy in WW2
I read of cases in which Rangers were cut off from the main force and ended up taking shelter in buildings in certain places in Italy. When the German infantry assaulted these buildings these Rangers were using, the Rangers were quickly slaughtered and those who survived the assault were easily captured as POWs!
2)Special Forces Camp in Khe Sanh
I read of how when the NVA assaulted the special forces camp nearby Khe Sanh, in less than one hour the Special Forces camp was overrun with the many Green Berets killed in the battle and the remaining surviving one being forced to retreat from the camp to the main bases in Khe Sanh!
3)GCMA in Dien Bien Phu
For those of you who don't know the GCMA were the French equivalents of the Green Berets in the Indochina War. During the siege of Dien Bien Phu there were several GCMA units in the French fortress, When the counterattack to take back Eliane and Dominique took place, GCMA units were proved to be useless in the counterattack being among the first to be expelled from the counterattack. By the time the counterattacks took place the GCMA were all but knocked out of the battle.It is interesting to note that , the GCMA commando troops who were garrisoned near the main hospital, were seen as the most useless unit in the fortress by Pierre Langlais, the garrison's dynamic commander.
How come special forces perform so badly in basic infantry functions such as defending places or directly assaulting enemy positions?