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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (9216)	9/14/2001 4:02:18 PM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<< this is a war in which operations and battles are conducted on American soil, in marked contradistinction to any historical precedent since the Civil War. >> No, the war will not be conducted on American soil. << That alone means any comparison to WWI or WWII is laughable at best. >> Nobody has made this comparison, certainly not me. There is no comparison.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (9216)	9/14/2001 7:11:54 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

One of the interesting thing about war, and it IS interesting, is that the technology is always improving. My husband is an ardent war gamer. A relative of his was a General in the Civil War (Union Side) and later taught war school at West Point, and there is a building named after him in Carlysle. I don't know much about war, myself, but it's in his blood and he's willing to lecture me any time I care to sit still and listen. As you know, in the American Revolution, we had rifles, they had muskets. We hid behind trees, they marched in formation, wearing red coats. Two recent movies which are fairly historically about military tactics of the time are "The Last of the Mohicans," which shows seige tactics, and "The Patriot", which shows how we practiced what we now call guerrilla warfare. In the Civil War, the weapons were better, including machine guns, and much better cannons, early attempts at submarines, early trench warfare - it was the first "modern" war, and extremely bloody. The battle of Antietam formerly had the biggest number of deaths in battle in one day in US history - 4,000. Our own Black September is now the worst. In World War I, the first use of airplanes. In World War II, V-1 and V-2, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Viet Nam, guerrilla warfare on the other side. We've been fighting little groups, rather than nations, for a while now. They learn our tricks and they adapt. We learn their tricks and we adapt. They change their tactics, we change ours. They are not going to "fight battles" on US soil, they are going to continue what they've been doing for a long time, hitting isolated targets, anonymously. This is the most spectacular, but it's not the first, and you're right, it's not the last.