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From: terryr@ogccse.ogc.edu (Terry Rooker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Low Tech Warfare (1 of 5)
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Date: 4 Dec 89 01:42:15 GMT
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From: terryr@ogccse.ogc.edu (Terry Rooker)
In article <11823@cbnews.ATT.COM> wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin) writes:
>
>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
>
It will be a long list.  Almost by definition, such a list will include
most battles where one side had surprise.  I believe the intent was to
describe a difference in mentality between industrialized people and
less developed cultures.  This is a more fundemental distinction than
merely doing something the other side thought physically impossible.  In 
working with third world militaries I have made the same observation, that
in many cases where would simply wait for an available machine, these
people just go and do it.  On several occasions I did the same thing with
my people.  We needed to get something done and we just used human strength
to do it.  You should have seen the strange looks we got from other people.

Terry Rooker
terryr@cse.ogc.edu


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