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To: Don Earl who wrote (16284)	1/26/2003 5:07:27 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78744

OT - I don't know if you have recent experience watching a US force in the field buttoned down against a serious threat; but diversified snipers can't do much except pop off a few rounds before an air strike or artillery silences them. Look at it this way - to operate as a military force, a battlefield unit needs food, ammo, fuel, shelter, a command structure and a reason to go on fighting. Use superior force to eliminate most of the above and they crumble unless they are absolute fanatics. I doubt Hussein's most loyal troops view him in the same light as the Japanese Emperor in 1945. More likely we will break the back of the Saddam structure and watch the pieces crumble like dust. The worst case is fanatical units melded into civilian areas. In which case you surround them, cut them off and wait. A military unit that can't go anywhere, do anything, resupply itself or follow command orders is....well, pretty useless. JMHO.