Military Goggle
Why are enemy snipers so good at getting away?
American are being shot by Iraqi snipers, and Americans only act retroactively.
Why arent our snipers undercover seeking their snipers?
All it takes is thermal imaging/night vision goggles, and setting up a perimeter farther out. Snipers are obvious even to the untrained eye.
And dont try to tell me Americans are too obvious. Delta Force and Navy SEALS are highly trained to operate as foreign subjects, including fluency. See: Richard Marcinko, 'Rogue Warrior' in which a small group of SEALS were able to pass themselves as locals in Beirut, even obtaining information sought after by US intelligence for months.
And to those who think sniping is cowardice, I suggest a refresher course on American military tactics 1776-1783 particularly, 'Battle of Lexington and Concord'.
So why are we unable to adapt, and place our snipers in position to snipe them? Is our military really so top heavy with approvals and permissions and decision making channels?
First off, you have no idea what you're talking about. I've been a Scout/Sniper in the USMC for the last 14 years...In the Corps for the last 19. As far as being hit by enemy snipers...we aren't, in fact the insurgency lacks the sufficent weapons and proficeint personnel to perform sniping attacks. We are being hit with IED's a totally different animal all together. More like guerilla warfare, where an innocent person/vehicle sometimes women and young children/teens get close to our personnel and blow themselves up. If we shoot before confirmation then we're baby killers, if we wait one millisecond too long we're toast. If you knew anything about snipers you'd know that there has to be cover to snipe from sometimes in the form of buildings sometimes in the form of biological cover. In Iraq we have neither when out on patrol.
Snipers take out a hard or confirmed target and we sometimes take weeks to get where we're going...the types of attacks happening to our troops in Iraq are fly bys, spontaneous and random. These are impossible to defend by snipers.