----- Original Message ----- From: "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 4:24 PM Subject: RE: Request for Proposals
> From: Nick Lidster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <much snippage> > Ill give you that, as long as you can concede that there would be > significant US casualties. Sounds a lot like what a lot of people said before the first Gulf War (including myself, I'll admit). But in an open battle, our technology and training was greater than the overwhelming numbers of tanks, infantry, aircraft, etc. Heck, folks were saying the same before the GW2! - jmh _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l The difference was that in the first gulf war Iraq faced the WW3 war machine that was trained harder and longer, for a European push against the USSR. In GW2 the US faced a greatly diminished force with morale at an all time low. Now if you can step back from the table for a minute and think about a "what if" GW1 never happened, and we went in now with the same amount of troops used in GW2, the US would not have faced significant causalities? Now what you will have is the US tiring to defend a entire country that is at a breaking point and doesn't want the US there, against a military of superior numbers with less tech, however keep in mind that these forces would not be facing the entire US force in one location, they would be facing smaller numbers at different locations, and they would reach the urban centers and there would be significant losses on both sides, leaving a huge power gap in both Iran and the US. If such a situation ever occurs, there is no reason why North Korea wouldn't make a push into South Korea, or china into Taiwan. The US simply can't afford for such a situation to occur. nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
