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From: wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin)
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Subject: Re: Low Tech Warfare (1 of 5)
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Date: 30 Nov 89 03:40:21 GMT
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From: wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin)
In <11729@cbnews.ATT.COM> mcgp1!flak@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Dan Flak) writes:
>                    LOW TECH WARFARE - PART I
>
>Americans live in a robot society. Rather than do work ourselves,
>we build machines to do the work for us. We fight wars with
>machines rather than people. We often solve simple problems with
>complex solutions and it's difficult for us to imagine what good
>honest hard physical labor can do.

It would be interesting to compile  a  list of battles that  were won by
one side doing  something the  other thought  was physically impossible.
Besides Dien Bien Phu and the Ho CHi Minh trail, other examples include

- Burgoyne getting guns up a mountain overlooking Ft. Ticonderoga,
- some Mainers doing the same thing to Ft. Louisburg on Cape Breton Is.
	in the 17th century,
- the Germans driving tanks through the Ardennes.
- Patton moving so fast in the Battle of the Bulge.

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