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Vehicles: protection
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Land convoy protection.
While the protection of convoys has become acute in recent operations, particularly with the proliferation of remote-controlled explosives, the risks involved are older than one might think: > wrote West Point professor Dennis Hart Mahan in an 1847 military text book.
American, British, French and other armies in the 19th Century understood the vulnerability of their supply columns to native attack. For most of the 20th Century military planners of almost every nationality believed that supply columns would be operating in a rear area where the only threat would come from air attack and Allied air superiority during the final stages of the Second World War made even that a remote threat. French forces fighting communist guerrillas in Vietnam in the 1950s and US forces facing the same ...See the full content of this document
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