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- From: Fengxi Zhou <fengxi@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca>
- Subject: Re: No Army Needed(
- Message-ID: <BzzCLp.90@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- References: <Bzq2u5.4Kz@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:29:49 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From Fengxi Zhou <fengxi@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca>
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- This topic probably has troubled military leaders for a long time and the
- conclusion is so convincing that none of the western military wants to commit
- its forces into the more active phase of "peacemaking" in the former Yoguslavia
- no matter what their political masters say and want. Just listen to the then
- head of UN peacekeeping force (a Canadian Major General whose name escapes me)
- in Bosnia-Herzegovina and you will understand their deep fear of
- deploying a well trained and well equiped army against a not so well trained
- and not so well equiped guerilla in a mountainous AND hostile environment.
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- Granted, a guerilla war will not be able to stop the invasion. And it is highly
- unlikely that it will be able to get rid of the invaders in a short term, if
- not downright impossible. A guerilla war is by definition a long term affair.
- But with the mounting loss along the time and dwindling morale, the war effort
- becomes so expensive that all incentives will be lost and the technically
- superior invader will have to pack and leave and suffer the humiliation.
- Vietnam (for French and American) and Afganistan are just two examples.
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- A well armed, and preferably well trained and well organized, population can
- be a deterrant factor to invasion, especially if the invader is thinking long
- term occupation. As some posters pointed out, there is morale and trust crisis
- now. But remember, when they are defending their home with their wifes and
- children at stake, all these problem will evaporate. Lest we forget, they
- happen to have a rifle with some hundres of bullets in their closet. What do
- you suppose they do with thses? Sure, rifles alone won't be enough.
- How about distributing LAWs and shoulder launched ATMs ans SAMs to civilian?
- They will need training, but that is part of the "swiss" model, anyway. They
- could be some serous concern to the invasion army.
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