RE: [NetEpic ML] Flaming for no legitimate reason, and in a "kind er, gentler" way...

From: <jyrki.saari_at_...>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:00:13 +0300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext nils.saugen_at_... [mailto:nils.saugen@...]
> Sent: 25. April 2001 17:37
> To: netepic_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [NetEpic ML] Flaming for no legitimate reason, and in a
> "kind er, gentler" way...
>
>
> Yea I know, the norwegian army secretly undermined several
> key bridges in
> the north of Finland, just in case the russians decided to go through
> Finland in order to attack Norway on a wider front. I guess
> our leaders,
> figured that the finns wouldn't offer any resistans if the
> Russians demanded
> to be allowed to pass through.
>

They were probably partly right; not that any resistance wouldn't be offered
but it probably wouldn't have had any real effect if the worst had happened
during the 60's. Back then the FDF equipment was obsolete and the defence
budget even smaller than it is now. Did you know we used PzIVj in tank crew
training until 73? It was to conserve the front line tanks...

> Fact is we are all pretty small countries, wich havent seen
> action in over
> 50th years. We all have outdated weaponry, few and poorly
> trained troops and

The training situation has gotten much better here, but there are too little
funds to adequately maintain the standard of reserve troops; the number of
reserve excercises has dropped dramatically. Fortunately there still are
people who attend voluntary defence excercises.

> governments that see no point in spending billions on defence
> budgets. In
> Norway the military made a terrible mistake. The generals
> complained a lot
> about the lack of funds, but when they finnished off their
> books by the end
> of the year, they had over a billion kroner left to spend.....
>

In here there is talk of closing some base camps again. It seems both our
#&x$! president and #&x$! prime minister see the cutting of defense bdget as
a way of getting political points for their "peace loving" policies. Oh
well, "sic vis pacem para bellum".

> Nils
>


Jyrki Saari

-There is no such thing as free lunch because eating takes time and time is
money.
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