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To: FaultLine who wrote (9605)	11/10/2001 1:34:26 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (5) of 281500

is it just me or is this truly ridiculous? Depends on what you value more highly... our blood, or their's... This is a war of attrition.. Which means the war is "won" by reducing both their ability, and their will, to oppose us (or more appropriate, their opponents in the Northern Alliance), while incurring the most minimal of casualties. Taking ground is important only in that it provides a base of operations for military operations, and/or humanitarian relief (which brings the benefit of the average civilian seeing what side their bread is buttered on).. But I completely abhor the concept of expending a $25,000-50,000 laser guided bomb to knock out a mere truck, as depicted here at Raytheon's website: raytheon.com (FAS has another neat site giving general prices per bomb) fas.org And I'm all for expending more of these relatively inexpensive "daisy cutters" ($25,000 per copy) to wreak psychological havoc amongst those tribes who haven't yet been convinced to change sides or remain neutral. One more way to think about this FL is that we're clearing out many of the obsolete guided munitions we've had in inventory since Desert Storm, opening up the justification for upgrading our technology. This was the case during Desert Storm when I became aware that many of our "dumb" bombs we were using actually dated from the Vietnam era (and we were slapping laser guidance systems on them).. I was told by a fella at Navajo Army Depot that we they spent months cutting dunnage (wood shipping pallets.. etc) shipping out their entire inventory of old bombs to be expended in Desert Storm. Hawk

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