We're trying to go to a thinking soldier. As I was there it went from conventional Saddam Iraqi army, to new Iraqi army. It was quite confusing after that who we can engauge or not engauge. They think by us knowing more about their fucked up society and country, we're better off finding and killing the enemy. Either way, as I experienced it was cat and mouse. But most units need to not be fucking pussies and get out on foot. Kick over a few rocks, rattle some cages and best of all clear your route on foot when you can. We did all of this and didn't have 1 soldier killed in my company. We adapted, and met the shit face first when we could. That's a big reason why we weren't fucked with or ambushed as often, we let them know we're not scarred. Too many ROE's aka rules of engaugement are changed and put into place. And the recent threat of court martials have soldiers and marines second guessing pulling a trigger. It's wrong, and we should utilize all assets we have, mainly air power. One way or another Al-Qaeda and other insurgents keep getting in, and by all means I'd rather they try to bomb a military that is armed and trained for it.