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From: mcdaniel@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (Tim McDaniel)
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Subject: Various questions
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From: mcdaniel@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (Tim McDaniel)

[1]

I've seen reports about the "38th Army", "27th Army", et cetera, being
in the Beijing area.  How do I find out more about these units?  For
example, are they infantry, mechanized infantry, or armor units?  What
sort of equipment do they have?  What is the structure of a Chinese
"Army": how many soldiers (combat and support)?  How many corps and/or
divisions?  What kind of training do Chinese Army troops have?  How
long do they serve, on average?  et cetera

I'd like to look up the answers myself (rather than bother the net)
but I don't know where to search.  Should I just look in the card
catalog under "Jane's"?


[2]

[Bill: Call this topic "irregular troops" or "urban combat", and it'll
fit under the sci.military charter. 8-) ] What can urban civilians do
to attack troops, given the "usual" equipment in foreign cities (i.e.
guns are not usually available)?  For example, I've heard that large
rocks or cement blocks can be used to detrack tanks, which then are
more vulnerable if infantry is absent.  Molotov cocktails have been
used to some good effect in Beijing.  What other things can be done?
Again, what is a good sourcebook?  Should I just read "The Anarchist's
Cookbook"?  8-)


[3]

[Bill: I know this is stretching things much further -- pretty please
with sugar on top?  Call it "guerrilla warfare" or "civilian
resistance"?  8-) ] How can I find out "how to be a dissident"?  How
do you organize an underground organization without getting arrested?
How do you set up an information net?  How did the French resistance
work?  et cetera.  I'm sure there are a thousand crucial details, but
what are they?

[mod.note:  I thought about these two topics, and I really can't see
much wrong with them, so long as the discussion remains academic.
- Bill ]
--
"6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding
profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so
called: 6:21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith."

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