I am back so I think if we want to save our soldiers the best solution is the preventive action and strike hard in the source of the problems if we are talking about the north Iraq border the main source of the problems are metina, avasin, basyan, zap, hakurk camps and when some attack is organized in the boarder outposts the terrorists are starting from there I think the outpost solution is not well planned or even outdated because as you stated the outposts are not doing their work I think at the moment the soldiers are there waiting to be attacked and acutally thats what is happening so I think if we are talking about post acions I think the intelligence is very important then the situational awarenes, the firepower in the outposts and the support sometimes I think Turkey is not enough motivated to stop the pkk terrorism if someone thinks that placing soldiers somewhere while they are waiting to be attacked let the terrorists occupy towns and then taking it back while in all this actions there is casualties I think that is not the way I think more agresive actions should be taken because Turkey is in defensive position if there is outposts make this outposts more like intelligence and surveillance posts on very strategic points like waypoints or something like that and make them watch bigger amount of areas where the terrorists are active and dont wait to be attacked but attack call support and make them suffer as you stated the terrain is not good for mining because you dont know who can go from there because I am sure that not only terrorists are using this ways and any collateral damage must be minimised there must be more UAVs watching the areas where terrorist activities are conducted and there must be some agreement with Barzani I am sure some members will hate me after this but Turkey must take international actions with Barzani in on this subject because as we see the most terrorists are not coming from camps in Turkey (if there is any big camps) but are coming from north Iraq and if somebody is responsible for this situation this is Barzani the kurdish and the iraqi government because they are letting the terrorists to have their activities in the areaMate, we are still talking about how to save soldiers if gets attacked.....i think this approach is fundamentally wrong. Soldiers there should be killing terrorists, not sitting in the base to get hit by a terrorist attack.
Like i said before bro. Sitting in the base solves nothing, roads and rural areas already belongs to these rats, as you can see they explode IEDs on the roads everyday, at most once in a week they attack a outpost.
Outposts here and there with soldiers inside them doing nothing but guarding the outpost serves nothing.
Man I think the same way as youWhat i think is very simple.
Demolish and abandon all of the outposts, just bases should stay. These terrorists infiltrate to Turkey from somewhere right ? Camps in Northern Iraq, right ? Go raid those camps, one by one....without alerting them.
Why are we waiting for terrorists to hit us ? They choose the time to hit, there for they choose the weather conditions, they choose the weak bases to assault, can plant IEDs to road and target reinforcements, heck they even shoot down the gunship that came for the aid.... We are leaving every initiative to the hands of the terrorists.
How many of our soldiers martyred during operations in rural areas and mountains ? A very very small percent because terrorists doesn't stand a chance when confronted. They are only good at hit and run tactics.
We are giving casualties because of the IEDs, attacks on bases and ambushes.....and all that because we are giving the initiative to terrorists..........
We know from which holes these rodents come....until we go and kill these rodents in their holes. We will continue to give martyrs.
This how i think, so i find upgrading, employing more modern tools in bases unnecessary.....because you are giving every initiative to terrorists, they will find a way to inflict damage.