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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (237373)3/13/2002 3:08:14 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Well baldy, if you understood and could visualize you would understand that Americans know the terrain far better than the locals. There are no locals who live in the mountains where the fighting is going on.

As to equipment, well how may Afghans with there little equipment are now dead from fighting moving around the terrain. How many Americans. I also would not count the several who died from a sneak or lucky hit on a helicopter.

I'd suggest an ambush has little to do with knowing the terrain in this case as opposed to a random piece of bad luck. No troops are really equipped to fight an attacking war at attitude. But American troops are the best and the best equipped. No local as attackers have stashes of food.
No local have com equipment that can call in fire support and resupply. Locals don't have the best in lightweight clothing and high energy food supplies.

Your words show you are clueless to the training and hardship conditioning that elite troops go thru. Yes listen to the reports of talking head reporters talking to local motor mouths giving expert opinions. LOL

And baldy, I have been involved the the design of terrain mapping systems. Including 3D visualization and even flybys. pbase.com
watman.com This stuff is 7 years old and is low low tech compared with today.

tom watson tosiwmee
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