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What the hell is wrong with a man and a radio? And a man with a radio is even less visible and on top of that, he doesn't have to run when he's out of ammo and he can stay in the fight alot longer since he's got way more ammo at his disposal than any 3 man team can carry.

I would suggest you look at the North Korean DMZ for a proper study of artillery usage. You've just died. You're relying on the man being able to see his target with the naked eye.

I've re-read the article with Glyn's opinion in mind and it is an extremely shallow, almost directed towards civilians rather than a military audience. Towed tubes still have their place, even in shoot-and-scoot, even from our days in the Cold War. Moving 100 feet is enough to throw the bad guys...

Sorry to disagree, Sir, but there is simply no cheaper and more effective way to deliver steel than the good old guns. Guns ain't hamper by rain nor weather and is available 24/7 once set up. airpower can deliver ordnance faster but no way cheaper. You're talking about round trips here that...

From what? You? We stared down the meanest and toughest tank army in history. You ain't got diddly squat. You have absolutely no idea how mean and ready we are You've lost that p!ssing contest before it even started.

I can honestly say that I have absolutely no idea what the Colonel is trying to say.

Stuart Slade is the nuclear weapons expert on the internet. In fact, he's the only one. He was involved in the nuclear targetting decision making. In his opinion, India has mastered getting a nuke under the 500kg mark (the minimum weight for a missile bound warhead) but Pakistan has not...

*** shaking my head *** In the final analysis, the final sign of victory is a boot on the ground planting the flag saying you're done. Which means ALL these wonderful toys in the end is going to get that guy to plant his boot on the ground.

War is sick. What did you expect? Milk and cookies? 1) When were you, as in personally, ever sufferred occupation? 2) We forced back the Americans - three times. Canada is the only country who repelled 3 American invasions. The so-called liberators who's putting more money into Iraq...

It works to stop me from starting anything. It does not work to stop me from ending anything. And it only works when both sides got daughters to worry about. And if you don't know, we have daughters in our armies as well.

Most of those countries are still in the Stone Age. Horse Puckey! 100 B-52s even in conventional mode gives me alot more capability than 30 F-16s with 40 nukes. A single B-52 carry enough ordnance for six sorties ... and that's before returning home to re-arm. If you can count, that's 600...

Sanity to realize the insanity. I have to go with the Brigadier on this one, will you do better English?!?!? I'm having a hard time understanding what you mean by "spread these to weak countries no matter whatever the mod of spread." The only nuclear weapons know how transfer that I know...

We were ready to take the rest of the world with us. About the only place that was relatively safe was central mid and Southern Africa and that's only because they're already in the Stone Age. No scenario that I am aware of that did not drag every major country into that fight. You have not...

Those ain't soldiers. When we were accused of rape in Yugoslavia, we actually said the wrong thing. "We wished." Not because we wanted sex but because it actually implies that we had time to lie down on a bed. In which case, we would be sleeping rather than having sex. In one incident during...

We don't knuckle drag any more, we march. We don't wear fur, but synthetic armour. We don't club each other for their meat or women, we shoot them because we just feel like it.

The life of a thread is an issue. Threads are trashed way too early without the benefit of long term data collection and knowledge build up. I find that I'm repeating the same arguements that I've already made in a previous thread that now resides in the trashcan.

The soldier.

Real comfort to the Chechens, Srebrenicia, Rwanda, and Dufar. The AK-47 has killed more people than those nukes did. Hell, the machatee had killed more people than those nukes did.

You mean if it weren't for John Wikes Booth who assissanted Lincoln. Lincoln's idea of freedom for the slaves was to ship them back to Africa. Liberia was created exactly that reason.

Nukes ain't a deterrance. It's a suicide waiting to happen ... and that's why it works. It ain't about deterring the other guy. It's about you doing everything in your power to avoid using your own nukes.