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From: nsc!taux01.nsc.com!amos@decwrl.dec.com (Amos Shapir)
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Subject: Re: Low Tech Warfare (1 of 5)
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Date: 5 Dec 89 03:55:00 GMT
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From: nsc!taux01.nsc.com!amos@decwrl.dec.com (Amos Shapir)

In article <11914@cbnews.ATT.COM> terryr@ogccse.ogc.edu (Terry Rooker) writes:
>In 
>working with third world militaries I have made the same observation, that
>in many cases where [ I ] 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.

You have just hit upon the reason why US troop can never win a war
in the Third World.  Don't tell the Pentagon.

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