-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 1/7/98 3:16 AM, Kent Crispin (kent@songbird.com) passed this wisdom:

On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 01:25:45AM -0600, snow wrote:

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I am fairly certain that as an irregular army soldier I could inflict a substantial amount of damage upon an occupying military. With maybe $20k in equipment and several hundred hours of training, you could make

If you were smart, you could do it for a lot less.

That presumes the enemy is dumb. An amusing fantasy.

... not so .... the US Military has very few really experienced combat soldiers left and most of those are in places where their experience isn't available to the grunt on the line. Most RVN vets are retired ... look just recently at what happened to the Russians troops sent to Chechnya ... all these brand spanking new, highly trained proud young 19 and 20 year old troops went romping off to fight 'a bunch of old men' in the Chechyn Republic ... there was one little problem ... a big hunk of those old men had spent two to seven years in that same Russian Army fighting the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan ... and that 'bunch of old men' kicked their young asses! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNLRAvD7r4fUXwraZAQHv5wf/S8j1et/Rf0LQu8eH4koWLjmSduaxggsY VMGcY7z2OfLdSrtVAGIcLpfPPdrOk0utmH317xwKIL9SIQIqGYvm7pCdYSv0A4Vx KD49W3pQjhvrhTHZldd8EFrd7Z2thfR1EJL9Vowsnyr4QHt5FvXrBs6k5531iNtN TURAhCzVgpKuMruwwaKMVc+P72mYJl7OM2I2j6ZdEkZOPNxoCVS/0xO8UTlWpLUO 9Suxvi+rJSa4k/HKRsGUrRO/LaFK7abTs/AwLioJlyd5ukXjdPuyY2wza8h1GvC2 fowHb8WGYdcwc45FBhpz3bEiS/PU5t2xHQ9p+/mEkLDknfBSNk01zw== =hiEs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature." -- Edmund Burke