New Perceptions of the Sniper Role

[VipersGhost]

I've been reading the "Shooter" book where the author talks about how the sniper role is very antiqued leaving the sniper on the modern, more urban battlefield, irrelevant and limited. He talked a lot about sniper strike teams and how snipers can work with squads to be very effective. He also goes on to describe the snipers old role as simply recon to be very limiting to and how they are deadly killers that should be "racking up the kills" with proper hit-run tactics where they actually can face up against troops using their range/stalking advantages.

He went on to describe his ideas of attacking full force battles. Basically hiding out and then taking out the leaders and high priority assets, machine gunners, SL'der in the back without remorse and getting LOTS of kills. Killing a bunch of guys...and then running away to a different area while the slower war machine attempts to hide, react and finally root you out. Thus disabling the OPFOR and completely slowing them down.

He said that Hathcock's ideas were revolutionary and that we've come to regard them as law instead of keeping with the "revolutionary idea" trend and adapting.

Now I'm not saying this guys word is law but I think he has some great points on how we fit/design the snipers' role into PR.