>Can't bring armor or vehicles up because of rough terrain
>Enemy might have air defenses that prevent close-air support and helicopter support
>Enemy will already be entrenched
How the hell do you deal with an enemy in the mountains?
>Can't bring armor or vehicles up because of rough terrain
The same way humanity has done for over a thousand years. Just siege them. They will all be dead in a week without water. You're gonna tunnel through hard rock for water? Going to take more than a week.
Tall mountains have snow. Snow can be melted for water.
But you can force an occupying force to commit a disproportionate amount of troops just to keep you in those mountains.
because this is how we won afghanistan
There was no army to fight against in Afghanistan.
Except there was no seige, Taliban had unmolested access to Pakistan, and the times the US did cut them off, Pakistan chimped out. Yanks should have called their bluff all things considered. They're just muslim streetshitters
Alpine mountains have a shitton of water, springs streams and glacial lakes. In terms of a relatively modern war fought in the mountains I think the closest is the Bosnian war. People tend to overlook it or just focus on the siege of the capital and war crimes but most of the war was trench fighting on mountains, hills and forests. Its advantageous to the side with less equipment obviously, the serb paramilitaries tried numerous times to haul tanks and heavy artillery up strategic peaks but for example in the battle of vlasic they got wiped out by bosnian light infantry advancing thru the cover of a blizzard. In essence the best thing for both actor and defender is small infantry squads infiltrating and siezing certain important heights in the mountain range in order to push the other side out. That or you can roll a seamine downhill at an enemy convoy and kill them all.
duality of spergs
You pretty much don't. If they're in the mountains, they're not attacking population and trade centres. If they come down from the mountains, you hit them then. People forget Taiwan has a huge % of the landmass covered in mountains and forests, but the majority of the important places are on the coast (much like China) or near it. So if China invades Taiwan, you can expect Taiwanese going into the hills and making it fucking miserable for Chinese. I assume China has relatively experienced mountaineer corps due to their rumbles with India, Tibet managing and shit like that. So, maybe they'd risk trying to clear it out with air support.
But mostly you don't bother unless you know where something important is to hit.
>I assume China has relatively experienced mountaineer corps due to their rumbles with India
DUde what? Source? Every video I've seen makes it look like they dump off 10 soviet era truckbeds of fresh bugs per few months and leave them to freeze and hit poos with sticks
Well they have had actual shooting wars in the mountains, so I assume they've learned something from it. But it's China so who knows.
Oh wait yeah I forgot how they almost fucking killed all of India under Mao, but that was also a fuck long time ago but yeah you're not entirely wrong, I'm slightly retarded
>Verification not required
No worries. It's China anyway. Who knows if they're competent or not. That's one of the worries, I guess. They could pretend to be retarded... but aren't. Or they actually are. USA and West should assume they aren't retarded.
Oh come on, those videos are extremely funny, 500 changs vs 500 rajets in the middle of nowhere fighting for some arbitrary territorial demarcation more civilized people would have fixed decades ago.
Taiwan is tiny, China can just place soldiers on every square inch of land.
The Bugmen use the metric system, anon.
I wonder if Taiwan is mimicking Switzerland in that sense. Tunnels and demolition points everywhere.
You can't achieve your objectives by hiding in the mountains
>Mountains don't frequently look down on critical logistics
>Mountains don't frequently serve as natural barriers and chokepoints
>Civilized or strategically important locations can NOT be located in or entirely accessible through direct proximity to, mountains
bro tell me you live in the flats without tellin me
The army in the mountains still has to neutralize their advantage to make offensive moves.
Yeah, and then if it goes wrong they move back to the mountains. You just learned that retreating is part of war.
What if your objective is to hold the mountains
Bombardment
But what if they have artillery in the mountains that can do counter-arty?
Sneaky bombardment
You stated that you can't bring armor or vehicles because of the terrain. SO even if they were air lifted ahead of time they still have no mobility and limited clearings to put them in. They are highly vulnerable.
How are they going to scoot out of the way? Maybe they would have pop up guns like in the world wars era.
There’s literally a documentary on this, it’s possible and there’s one man who can do it. Thankfully, he’s on our side.
Mortars. preferably with incendiary shells
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But what if they have mortars too?
Bring more mortars. I can surround their mountain with way more mortars than they can drag up to its top
what if the mountain enemy has done the absolute obvious and fortified their positions on the mountains so that they're protected from shelling?
just keep dropping bombs until the fort breaks
Cover the whole mountain in burning napalm so that they die from hypoxia. If they somehow have a source of air from the base of the mountain, just keep dropping napalm until the mountain itself becomes hot enough to roast them alive.
Defoliant, napalm, and a shit ton of shelling, preferably with thermobarics
Didn't work in Vietnam, Korea, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Afghanistan, Dien Bien Phu or Chechenya.
What makes you think a mountain range doesn't have dirt roads, trails or hard cover? Or artillery guns for that matter.
>Didn't work
It did, since this is PrepHole and not 4chan we talk about the use of weapons and the fact in most battles at a mountain me filling a cave were you are hiding with fire means you either die charred or choke to death from all the oxygen replaced with fumes.
>How the hell do you deal with an enemy in the mountains?
Krupp mountain gun, duh.
I will whip out my dick, they will come down to worship my manhood.
Drones are the solution. This is how turkey got heqd on drone tech, they jad mountain people to bomb.
Highly trained and specialised infantry.
> Enemy might have air defenses that prevent close-air support and helicopter support
SEAD
fighting from the air against ground opponents is just unfair. Seriously, the entire military and doctrine should be focused on the air force, all other branches should just be support for the air force.
The enemy in the mountains have no vehicles, no planes, and maybe some helicopters. Primarily just infantry with infantry-portable weapons. They probably have reduced supply infrastructure as well, compared to a flat or urban area. Really, I'd say it's much easier than an enemy in an urban setting.
Yeah, think twice
I'd rather the enemy have relatively few inflexible casemate guns then a city full of roads, hard cover, and mobile artillery units.
Just a friendly reminder that you wont have a lot of mobile units either, and those "mountains roads" are just choke points for you.
What does the chain curtain do?
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Primarily, it's a cheap way to obscure the gun from being obvious at long range, while also allowing it full range of motion. As a bonus, unlike tarps and nets, it also provides a somewhat effective barrier against shrapnel. And they also impede small arms fire and other slow moving projectiles sufficiently enough to slow them down and deflect their path, reducing their effectiveness.
Lots and lots of Sarin, gas the entire mountain chain.
I field the one and obvious rational choice.
It's that or brightly colored 8m tall mecha piloted by young kid
>air defenses
>rough terrain
>>air defenses
terrain
>3.5 km altitude
You keep picking at their cities for 20 years then give up when you realise there's no way to get them out of their caves.
Depends if you can encircle the mountain range, and what popular support the mountain dwellers have.
As others have mentioned, water isn't such a problem. Food and other sustainment (read: fuel, warm clothing) is though. In the tropics, substitute warm clothing for bug spray and medical supplies, and in more arid regions water becomes a problem again.
It's no place for an army, but a good one for an insurgency.
Cordon off the mountains.
Napalm, thermobarics, defoliants and a shit ton of drones to spot, engage and call in pgm when the enemy leaves their tunnels for combat/replenishment. Bunker busters once you've established their hideouts.
If its a near peer conflict and then just bypass it and leave token force to cordon the off the area until you can spare enough troops for mop up operations.
Tldr, dwarves op. Buff elven aircrafts.
The Italian front existed you know, it was pure hell
snipe them
Anon, you have just discovered why Mountain Infantry is a specific specialized infantry type and organization. Congratulations.