The NYTimes writes about Iraqi snipers

I thought this was a very interesting article in the NYTimes on Iraqi snipers and the US troops experience and response.

Many marines, on operations, do an understated dance they call “cutting squares.” It is not really a square at all.

They zig and zag as they walk, and when they stop they shift weight from foot to foot, bobbing their heads. They change the rhythm often, so that when a sniper who might be watching them thinks they are about to zig, they have zagged.

Now and then they squat, shift weight to one leg and stand up beside the place where they had just been. Maj. Sean Riordan, the battalion executive officer, described his own unpredictable jigs as “my little salsa dance.”.....

But as operations drag on, some marines begin to stop cutting squares.