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There\'s actually a very good reason why there\'s so many troops out in the city fighting. It\'s mentioned at the beginning of the movie, right before the shit hits the fan, that Army, Marines, and National Guard are being deployed into the city to help with evacuation prior to the \
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There\\\'s actually a very good reason why there\\\'s so many troops out in the city fighting. It\\\'s mentioned at the beginning of the movie, right before the shit hits the fan, that Army, Marines, and National Guard are being deployed into the city to help with evacuation prior to the \\\"meteor\\\" impacts. The troops fighting in the streets during the flyover are units that were sent out to manage said evacuation. Later on, they were overrun during the ground aspect of the invasion (and the aliens move really damned fast, it seems) and scattered troops elements are either cut off or trying to retreat back to the defensive lines. Admittedly, its\\\' a very heavy-handed evacuation, but there\\\'s indications in the movie that the government had some idea of what was coming and were hastily trying to deploy troops, but got slammed before they could do much.
Pretty much all of the infantry fighting in the combat zone after Nantz\\\'s squad is deployed comes from whatever evacuation troops survived the initial overwhelming amphibious assault and are scattered throughout the city after being shattered by the alien advance. None of them are from patrols being sent out aside from Santos\\\' recon mission.
Ultimately, though, I think we just don\\\'t see enough of what\\\'s happening to get a good idea of what\\\'s really going on, so we shouldn\\\'t draw conclusions with incomplete data. There\\\'s just not enough there to say if the tactics are really bad or just look bad because we have a skewed view.
Either way, I think putting an entire entry about whether or not they used \\\"proper\\\" tactics would be unnecessarily nitpicky for HollywoodTactics, which is really more for blatantly obviously terrible tactics. Maybe a rewording of the entry, i.e. \\\"The squad-level tactics are good for a sci-fi movie...\\\" without needing to go into full-on intelligence analyst mode.
Pretty much all of the infantry fighting in the combat zone after Nantz\\\'s squad is deployed comes from whatever evacuation troops survived the initial overwhelming amphibious assault and are scattered throughout the city after being shattered by the alien advance. None of them are from patrols being sent out aside from Santos\\\' recon mission.
Ultimately, though, I think we just don\\\'t see enough of what\\\'s happening to get a good idea of what\\\'s really going on, so we shouldn\\\'t draw conclusions with incomplete data. There\\\'s just not enough there to say if the tactics are really bad or just look bad because we have a skewed view.
Either way, I think putting an entire entry about whether or not they used \\\"proper\\\" tactics would be unnecessarily nitpicky for HollywoodTactics, which is really more for blatantly obviously terrible tactics. Maybe a rewording of the entry, i.e. \\\"The squad-level tactics are good for a sci-fi movie...\\\" without needing to go into full-on intelligence analyst mode.
