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To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: Landmines RE: US Foreign Policy Re: *DO* we share a
civilization?
>Rick Atkinson's superb book
> _Crusade_, a history of the Gulf War, describes 73-Easting, in which a
> single American tank company under the command of H.R. McMaster smashed an
> entire Iraqi regiment in _minutes_ without taking a single casualty of
> their own. It wasn't that the Iraqis weren't _trying_ to fight - they
were
> very brave, just about all accounts agree. It's just that they couldn't
> see at night, their weapons weren't really capable of damaging M-1s, their
> fire control couldn't even begin to engage at ranges that American tanks
> could score first-round kills on the move, and their unit cohesion was
vastly
> inferior. They could _try_ all they wanted, they just couldn't do
anything
> about it. My current boss used to command that unit before the Gulf War,
> in fact.
>
OK, since you know the folks involved, let me ask you about how this bears
on Korea. Why doesn't this show that we only need a few tank companies to
stop all the North Korean tanks? Are North Korean tanks that much better
than those from Iraq? Is the difference in terrain important? At face
value, you would seem to be presenting an arguement against the need for
land mines in Korea.
Dan M.
