In times of 'Star-wars' there should be some satellite warning and reconnaissance service to the troops acting on the ground.
Whenever one may create some new agricultural fields prior to irrigation within OP 'Desert thunder' by petrification of soils and sand masses into siliciumcarbide after moisturing with salty waters one must be sure of evacuation before turning on the Lasers/Masers.
Any opportunity that the engineers may find to shunt away the effectiveness of the insurgents is another golden day. It has got to be a true slap in the face to be an insurgent waiting for a planted device to go off when it is found and successfully disarmed. An IED thwarted is a gigantic morale builder for the unit conductiong the suppressions and it must also be a kick in the shorts for the insurgent group that planted it only to recieve no results. Haji........HAAAAAH!
Agedor, that was quite a mouthful. I think they should mine the berms with Hornets (really good mine)and deploy a few more sniper teams to cover these berms. Plus throw a little Spam on the concertina which most certainly covers the tops of the berms. Good article.
During my time, around the age of the dinosaurs, we used to booby-trap kill zones for ambushes with lengths of Bangalore Torpedoes. You place a simple pressure plate initiator at the far end of the insurgents approach. Generally their whole patrol was walking on Bangalores (or a couple doubled over lengths of Det Cord,) the point hits the pressure plate and those bad-boys have a ripping experience.
Leave the holes in the line and do the same. It will soon dissuade them from using any hole twice, leaving less area to guard.
Any barrier put into place only has limited value when not observable or covered by fire. Be it mines, wire or in this case a berm. A berm might be adequate to cut off or reduce vehicle traffic but will do little about foot movement. Even a sniper would be a big deterance during limited visiability or daylight. If it moves at night...suggest killing it and let God sort them out.
