Snipers: Battlefield saviors or sinners?
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.2 • 898 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Snipers play a key role in the world’s armies. They target commanders on the opposing side and other targets with an outsize impact. Working by themselves, they can pin down a group, creating fear and confusion. This week on War College we look at the history of snipers and the role they play now. It’s fair to say the role wasn’t always considered a badge of honor.
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| 0:13.6 | The opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the participants, not of Reuters news. |
| 0:18.6 | Today's standard infantry rifle is as accurate and has as much range to it really as the sniper rifle of World War II. two. |
| 0:38.0 | Hollywood cast Bradley Cooper, handsome Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle in the movie American sniper. |
| 0:45.0 | In real life, Kyle killed at least 160 people with his rifle, |
| 0:50.0 | according to the Pentagon. |
| 0:52.0 | This week on war college, we look at the history of |
| 0:54.6 | snipers and the role they play in today's military. One of the things we learned is |
| 0:59.4 | that in the past this job was not exactly considered a batch of honor. |
| 1:04.0 | You're listening to War College, a weekly discussion of a world in conflict |
| 1:11.0 | focusing on the stories behind the front lines. Here's your host, |
| 1:15.0 | Jason Fields. |
| 1:19.0 | Hello and welcome to War College. I'm Redder's opinion editor, Jason Fields. |
| 1:23.4 | And I'm Matthew Gault, contributing editor at Wars Boring. |
| 1:26.6 | Today we're talking with Ian McCollum. He's the editor of Forgotten Weapons.com. |
| 1:31.5 | The site is dedicated to researching and archiving |
| 1:34.4 | information about historic and unusual firearms. It's an amazing collection of |
| 1:38.9 | information. I totally recommend it. Ian previously walked us through the fascinating history of the machine gun, and today he's here to talk about snipers. |
| 1:49.0 | Ian, thank you so much for joining us. |
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