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From: jwm@stda.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Caves, military use of
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Date: 11 Oct 89 03:37:07 GMT
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From: jwm@stda.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt)
In article <9929@cbnews.ATT.COM> you write:
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}From: cperlebe@encad.Wichita.NCR.COM (Chris Perleberg)
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}In article <9867@cbnews.ATT.COM> jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
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}>     What about caves in other areas of military significance?  Germany?
}>Central America?  The USSR?  Etc.???  We've read about the Viet Cong's use of
}>caves in Vietnam, what other historical battles involved the use of caves?
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}Don't know about the Israeli caves, but the North Koreans must be the
}cave masters on the world.  They regularly dig huge tunnels under the DMZ.
}Some are big enough for a tank division to roll through.  Additionally 
}(according to the book _Red Phoenix_ anyway), they have airports built in
}caves.

I was under the impression that Sweden had hollowed out a mountain, and
had facilities in in such that they could put most of their Navy
underground.

Cheyenne Mountain ain't no small potatoes, either!


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