Re: Squat Army WAS Re: [Epic] Knights(Lil' bit off topic)

From: Thane Morgan <thane_at_...>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 00:45:38 -0700

Los wrote:
>
> Bloodax218_at_... wrote:
>
> > Now, the troops should never have been sent in to do that particular job,
> > since an airstrike could have solved the problem, but you know haw annoying
> > politicians can get, they never wanna just go in and kill the enemies and
> > their supporters.
> >
>
> The funny thing is, that an airstrike oliteratingthe palace wiould have probably
> resulted in less casualties for the Somalis too. We killed thousands of Somalias
> in the fight that day.
>
> Los

The other thing to remember from this is that commanders get
over-confident in their high tech weaponry; a bunch of "trash" with
automatic rifles can put out a lot of lead, and there is no full body
armor in the real world that will take that kind of crap. In this case,
the weapon was what determined the value of the troops, not the actual
troop quality.

However, this is still not the same as Wargaming point values; they are
based on a relative combat effectiveness of the whole unit, as opposed
to monetary cost.

By the way, politicians did not send those troops in; their commanders
did. They assumed any red blooded american boy could whip a bunch of
"trash", and did not uphold their responsibility to get good
intelligence as to what they were sending their boys into. Also, as was
proved in the gulf, there is still no such thing as a surgical
airstrike, and killing a house of the enemy doesn't help when you make
enemies of the 30 houses around it.

Thane
Received on Mon Feb 09 1998 - 07:45:38 UTC