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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: U.S. military options against Iraq
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Date: 23 Aug 90 01:46:00 GMT
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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)

>In article <1990Aug8.030228.25162@cbnews.att.com>, edat!root@uunet.UU.NET (Superuser) writes:
>>Nuclear weapons might be a little hard on the oil fields.

   Er, in a blockade situation the worst one has to do is cut the pipelines
which might be used to avoid the blocaded ports. 
   Cutting pipelines has a low chance of causing loss of life, involves a
very large area to defend/attack and the pipelines are moderately difficult
to repair, moderatly difficult and quite slow to get repair material to the
site: a very advantageous situation for an attacker.

  There was a newspaper report of oil being trucked across the same border
crossing that the refugees were exiting by.  This may mean that some damage
has already ocurred...

--dave

  
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