Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!military From: riga@uncecs.edu (Helmuts A. Fiefs) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: GAS WARFARE Message-ID: <1990Aug12.214511.2686@cbnews.att.com> Date: 12 Aug 90 21:45:11 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 11 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Helmuts A. Fiefs Chemical warfare seems to be the only phase of warfare where no real offensive modality has been delivered. Troops are just expected to hunker down, cover up, or robe up and move through the fog. Doesn't this seem strange. Why do troops not carry aresol counter chemical agents which , when they are attacked, could bbe deployed to neutralize whatever vapor was being wafted their way. The new acronym could be NOP (neutralize, oxidize, or percipitate). Counter ARTY sends in a neutralizing agent into the aresol (sp) cloud headed toward our troops and our troops move through it spraying their individual aresols. Fluid within fluid. My examples might be bad but has this been tried ?