Re: Wargaming (was Re: [ZION] Ways food storage could be activated)

2002-10-04 Thread Marc A. Schindler
Jon Spencer wrote: > Actually, I think that there is a realistic way for Mexico to invade Canada, > to see if Canada's entire 55,000 member armed forces could beat the Mexican > army. Since the US already lets the Mexican army come onto Indian lands in > Arizona to protect the drug smugglers,

Re: Wargaming (was Re: [ZION] Ways food storage could be activated)

2002-10-04 Thread Marc A. Schindler
Scott McGee wrote: > Mark, > > Sorry, I misread your post. You said a list of countries who could, and I > read it as a list of countries who would like to. My apologies. I was > repeatedly interupted yesterday while trying to read my mail (ok, I was > trying to read my mail while working on so

Re: Wargaming (was Re: [ZION] Ways food storage could be activated)

2002-10-04 Thread Jon Spencer
Actually, I think that there is a realistic way for Mexico to invade Canada, to see if Canada's entire 55,000 member armed forces could beat the Mexican army. Since the US already lets the Mexican army come onto Indian lands in Arizona to protect the drug smugglers, the US could just extend a lit

Re: Wargaming (was Re: [ZION] Ways food storage could be activated)

2002-10-04 Thread Scott McGee
Mark, Sorry, I misread your post. You said a list of countries who could, and I read it as a list of countries who would like to. My apologies. I was repeatedly interupted yesterday while trying to read my mail (ok, I was trying to read my mail while working on something that had repeated "wait a

Re: Wargaming (was Re: [ZION] Ways food storage could be activated)

2002-10-04 Thread Elmer L. Fairbank
At 18:33 10/3/2002 -0600, M Marc wrote: >There's a real-life precedent for your scenario: Napoleon's invasion of >Russia, and that was just the Priepsky Marshes that he had to navigate. >Territory and weather were major causes of the Nazi failure in their >attempt at invading Russia, >too.

Re: Wargaming (was Re: [ZION] Ways food storage could be activated)

2002-10-03 Thread Marc A. Schindler
There's a real-life precedent for your scenario: Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and that was just the Priepsky Marshes that he had to navigate. Territory and weather were major causes of the Nazi failure in their attempt at invading Russia, too. Mark Gregson wrote: > > > So, in conclusion, I t

Re: Wargaming (was Re: [ZION] Ways food storage could be activated)

2002-10-03 Thread Dan R Allen
Mark: But that's just what I refuse to do: concede that any country can do an overseas invasion of Canada. You have heard of wargaming. I mean the real stuff done by the military, not the Saturday afternoon fantasies of teenage boys. Do a wargame of an overseas invasion of Canada. You will

Wargaming (was Re: [ZION] Ways food storage could be activated)

2002-10-03 Thread Mark Gregson
> So, in conclusion, I think the list you stated would be empty is, > instead, rather lengthy. I won't bother to try to fill in the list, > but if you were to concede my arguements, you would see that it is > indeed a long one. But that's just what I refuse to do: concede that any country