{"id":13026,"date":"2016-03-11T13:46:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T19:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=13026"},"modified":"2016-03-11T13:46:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T19:46:38","slug":"military-history-armies-used-to-hate-snipers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/11\/military-history-armies-used-to-hate-snipers\/","title":{"rendered":"Military History: Armies Used to Hate Snipers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13027\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/snipers.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"Im Westen, Scharfsch\u00fctze\" width=\"620\" height=\"291\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\">A brief history of armed conflict&#8217;s most controversial job<\/h3>\n<p>Snipers play a key role in the world\u2019s armies. They\u2019re excellent scouts and can target commanders on the opposing side with an outsize impact. Working by themselves, they can pin down a group, creating fear and confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to movies such as <i>Enemy at the Gates\u00a0<\/i>and <i>American Sniper<\/i> the specialty marksman is having a pop culture moment. People love watching snipers work in films, and they love picking up a sniper rifle in video games.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tt-wrapperfb43583\" class=\"tt-wrapper inread \">\u00a0But expert marksmen weren\u2019t always so beloved. There was a time during the early part of the 20th century when a soldier caught sniping would face execution instead of capture. So what changed?<\/div>\n<p>This week on War College we talk to Ian McCollum of<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/\">Forgotten Weapons<\/a><\/strong> about the history of the sniper and how the position has gone from reviled to celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the War College Podcast on<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1023774600\">iTunes<\/a><\/strong> or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/war_college\">Soundcloud<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/warisboring.com\/articles\/the-military-once-hated-snipers\/?mc_cid=561f6aad89&amp;mc_eid=1149a36069\">War is Boring<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief history of armed conflict&#8217;s most controversial job Snipers play a key role in the world\u2019s armies. They\u2019re excellent scouts and can target commanders on the opposing side with an outsize impact. Working by themselves, they can pin down a group, creating fear and confusion. Thanks to movies such as Enemy at the Gates\u00a0and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2280,2004,475,1286,4418,1898,24,1899],"tags":[5426,5427,1025,5428,3928,3913],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}