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Mexico Military Tactics

Mexico Military Tactics

What are the typical battle procedures for the military of Mexico? Consider both the historical and modern aspects of attack and defense for Mexico in overcoming the enemy. Has Mexico borrowed combat procedures from any historical encounters?

Tactics Military Mexico

Having the US as a neighbor is quite an influencing force. Mexico takes many of its tactics from the US. Many Mexican officers train at US military schools. And many other go to Spanish military schools, which also borrow tactics from the US. That said, Mexican military tradition is all its own. Although we beat them in the wars we fought, they fought bravely. It has never been said that Mexicans' aren't brave. Hen they assaulted the Alamo they went headlong into withering fire, and kept coming, day after day. At Mexico City, when assaulting the fortress of Chapultepec, when US Grant and Robert E. Lee fought on the same side as officers in the US Army, Mexican soldiers fought bravely against an overwhelming force of Americans Firing until we were right on top of them and then fighting with bayonet and using their weapons as clubs.