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To: John Lacelle who wrote (1465)	4/4/1999 4:53:00 PM
From: nuke44	Respond to of 17770

The destructive power of today's modern weaponry is so much greater than that possessed by any military fifty years ago that a comparison between NATO today and the Germans then is almost impossible and probably irrelevant. The power of some of these weapons is almost inconceivable to me and I've spent the last 30+ years making munitions and weapons systems my career. I don't think it will come to a land war, but if it does, there has been nothing to indicate that the Serbs will cut and run. It would be a bloody conflict with the Serbs having the advantage of home turf so to speak and NATO having the advantage in weaponry and training. It's hard to judge the true lethality of NATO armor facing the Serbs from our experience in Desert Storm. Their overwhelming superiority to the much vaunted Republican Guards and the remainder of the Iraqi army led to a one on one kill rate for tanks at almost 900 Iraqi tanks destroyed to 2 allied ones. I hope like hell it doesn't come to a land war. I hope Milosevic comes to his senses first. Another thing to remember about the Serbs and the Germans in WWII. is that the Serbs had Josip Bruz Tito as a commanding general. He was one of the finest tacticians and military leaders of modern times, not to mention, a penultimate political leader. The irony here is, if Tito was still alive, if he hadn't died in 1980, he might have had the force of will to hold Yugoslavia together and foregone or at least postponed the ethnic bloodshed of the last nine years.