#6 Guys, that is some horrible country to operate in. No roads for vehicles and much of it above the ceiling for helicopters. The Army would need alpacas or llamas to hump supplies into that country and attack some of those hideouts. Our vehicles, UAVs and helicopters would be useless up there.
I don't think people appreciate exactly how rugged that terrain is. We are talking Himalayas folks. And most of the routes though the rugged country are going to begin closing in 30 to 45 days as the snows come. We are talking about a mountain range with some PASSES at 10,000 feet.
We would need specially trained mountain troops using pack animals hauling their own feed in addition to any ammunition and other supplies and there would be no chance of medevac or even attack helicopter support in the most rugged areas. Operations in some of the isolated valleys in winter would be nearly impossible as we wouldn't be able to get troops into them save paratroops and then we would still have no way to evacuate wounded.
It is some hellish terrain and conditions would be very primitive. I am not sure we have a lot of troops trained to operate in conditions like that. |