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To: Sig who wrote (93332)	4/13/2003 11:23:03 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

no more dangerous than an army of 60,000 We have two military problems now. The ability of NK to "take out" Seoul with arty before we take out the arty. And does NK have a Nuke, and would they use it? But our main enemy is time. If we don't get NK under control, their ability to hurt us in the future goes up exponentially.

To: Sig who wrote (93332)	4/13/2003 11:59:22 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<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.> In the Information Age, those with the ability to use the technology have a qualitative advantage, that overwhelms any quantitative disadvantage. I don't know enough about the history of military technology to know for sure, but it seems to me there is more military disparity today, between nations, based on technology, than existed anytime in the 20th Century. I remember reading a history of the Inca conquest once. The Spanish regularly defeated armies 100 times their size, because they had: 1. horses. The Inca armies were infantry, so the Spanish always got to the battles "firstest with the mostest". 2. Toledo steel. Their swords could be bent in a half circle without breaking. 3. chain mail. The Inca weapons couldn't pierce them. Spaniards could be hit repeatedly, and survive, as long as they stayed mounted. The Incas never figured out the need to target the horses, or using massed archers (which, in Europe, was the way to defeat armored cavalry).