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- From: Norman Yarvin <yarvin@cs.yale.edu>
- Subject: Re: No Army Needed( was: Swiss military preparedness?)
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- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Yale Computer Science Department
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:28:00 GMT
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- From Norman Yarvin <yarvin@cs.yale.edu>
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- viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
- > I'll start. An armed populace will undermine morale, kill
- >any popular support, and force soldiers to kill far more than what
- >the US considers necessary or justified. Thus, it is a losing
- >battle no matter who wins so far as the Army is concerned. Can
- >you refute this?
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- In WW2, the Germans in many places had a policy of reprisals: for every
- German soldier killed, they would execute ten of the local population. In
- addition if they knew a spy was hiding in a village, they would punish the
- village unless the spy was caught.
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- Perhaps someone else can say how effective these were in general, but there
- was at least one incident of a spy giving herself up so that a village would
- not be punished.
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- Norman Yarvin yarvin@cs.yale.edu
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