At 13:46 14-8-01 -0400, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>you don't get to be a Colonel in the United States army (which
>two of them are) without knowing what you are talking about.
Do we agree that the same can be said about people with the rank of Lt.General?
Food for thought at http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/uslm/USALM007-01.htm :
"Several retired military leaders have questioned the utility of
antipersonnel mines in Korea, citing the overwhelming technological
superiority of U.S. weapons being able to compensate for having no
antipersonnel mines. Lt. General James Hollingsworth, former commander of
U.S. forces in Korea, has said, "There is indeed a military utility to APLs
[antipersonnel landmines], but in the case of U.S. forces in Korea it is
minimal, and in some ways even offset by the difficulty our own APLs pose
to our brand of mobile warfare.... Not only civilians, but U.S. armed
forces, will benefit from a ban on landmines. U.S. forces in Korea are no
exception."12
The footnote that goes with this:
12 See General Hollingsworth's Foreward to Demilitarization for Democracy,
"Exploding the Landmine Myth in Korea," August 1997, p. ii. He also said,
"To be blunt, if we are relying on these weapons to defend the Korean
peninsula, we are in big trouble.... North Korea's mechanized assault can
be destroyed well north of Seoul without the use of U.S. APLs. I never
counted on our APLs to make much of a difference..."
Well, whaddaya know, even a Lt.General and former commander of US troops in
Korea agrees with me...
Jeroen
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