Modern Day Tactics

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American infantryman are almost unstoppable at night fighting because the training with the NVGs and PAC4s makes their use second nature for the American infantryman which is a huge advantage over units that haven't been trained with their night fighting equipment or that just don't have any.

Another big thing I'd add is accuracy. The US from the most powerful to the smallest handgun trains for good accurate shots and thats one of the reasons for the lack of US casualties in "that part of the world". Simply because guys pop out of a corner with an AK 47 firing full auto and don't hit a damn thing. Shooting at a person isn't any good if you can't hit him, no matter how big your bullet is.

Then the body armor comes in. The new Interceptor Body Armor will stop several shots from an AK 47(7.62x39). THis makes really just the neck and face along with the limbs venerable. to direct fire. No armor is perfect though and there's always a chance that a bullet will go between the plates or hit a limb and travel through the flesh into the torso. There's a lot that can kill a man but body armor increases very much his chances of coming back.

And of course there's just regular training. When you train with people over a period of months you learn how they react to things. You communicate with each other easier, you are more likely to help each other if the shit hits the fans and can work together as a team without the team leader or squad leaders needing to constantly correct the team members. Movement together becomes second nature, everyone knows their job and when something happens they know what to do and do it. They cover their sectors of fire knowing their buddies are covering their sectors of fire which allows for accurate fire power going down range and constant 360 degree security (so MTW flank attacks don't work near as good.)

There's also an excellent working together of different forces. If it gets to tough for the infantry they can call in artillery or apache gunships or even have some tanks or more infantry brought up and all this can set in motion within minutes thanks to high standards for radio communication along with good modern radioes and encrypters so as to prevent the enemy from tapping in on your transmissions.