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To: LindyBill who wrote (93326)	4/13/2003 11:14:06 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<<<Kim Il Sung may be crazy but he's not stupid. With one end of the axis down, his many heroic statues look a little shaky. His South Korean counterpart, Roh Moo Hyun, whose own attitude toward the U.S. has undergone an after-Saddam epiphany, says that Kim was "petrified" by the speedy U.S. victory.>>> No doubt about that. Using a nuke is still impractical. That leaves N Korea with a 6 mm man army, and he just saw in Iraq a few hundred US tanks running around wherever they pleased, decimating entire Armies, Divisions, Battalions of Saddams best. Invulnerable to small arms or AK 47 fire , even rocket propelled grenades and suicide bombers had minor effect. Entrenched artillery is completely vulnerable from the sky, which we own despite Iraqs many anti-aircraft missiles, radars, and guns I have worked in the aircraft industry and I have not been able to figure how we overcame the Iraqi anti-aircraft capabilities so fast. But it was concerted effort of detection, location(GPS) , sensing, jamming, laser, radar, armoured airplanes, perhaps using E-bombs, finally all coming together in Cen Com on display screens. That is our "System", vastly improved over Gulf War 1, and despite only three weeks of work recently much has been learned to improve things. No other Nation can come close to those capabilities In Summary : The capability and effectiveness of Kim 11 Sungs 6 mm man army must now be reduced by a factor of 100 - and is no more dangerous than an army of 60,000 unless some nation is stupid enough to conduct a historical man- to-man ground war. He will go broke feeding them. Sig@armorededhelicoptersindeed.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (93326)	4/14/2003 9:36:06 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You may remember that the "Brotherhood of War" series opens with a tank action at Kasserine Pass. I hear Atkinson gives a lot of inside info on the American Commanders, which interests me. Atkinson gets better. Classic bit of needing 100 pages to get into the flow. Read another 100 last evening and it's almost, but not quite, at that "can't put it down" stage. Lots of terrific new information. At least for me. The US military wanted to go straight through France to Berlin. One mad dash. When Roosevelet overruled them, followed Churchill's advice to go through northern Africa first, many military leaders considered resignation. Eisenhower was furious at Roosevelt. Damn civilians.