lemaymiami
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As anticipated..this thread has some legs and wanders a bit (understatement)... My small contribution was to point out that a small concealable sub-gun might be less than what I'd want in a full out war environment - but in war there's always a place for every kind of weapon from a large rock (used with very bad intentions) all the up to the un-thinkable..
Someone has pointed out that this is a "new war" - and with that I take exception.. In fact it's the same exact formula followed in the last world war, dirty, messy, and absolutely destructive of everything civilized (except those proud moments when folks are at their best doing anything they can for the victims...). The forces that attack engage those that defend - and if there's no success there, back off and simply destroy the defender's cities and towns from a safe distance- then go occupy the wasteland that remains - if they can... This is exactly how the Russians did it in WWII - and their savagery against the civilian population hasn't changed a bit either...
Very glad I'm not there and hope our very poor current leaders can find ways to assist the defenders without starting a bigger conflict - and, of course, that's what the attackers are counting on... Just a very bad scene any way you slice it... In fact I'm expecting this to descend into how the Germans described fighting in Warsaw all those years ago - after it was reduced to ruins... "ratten krieg" and if the little german I learned as a kid living there is even close to accurate - it means "rat's war", fought from cellars and destroyed buildings in the rubble that remained...
Someone has pointed out that this is a "new war" - and with that I take exception.. In fact it's the same exact formula followed in the last world war, dirty, messy, and absolutely destructive of everything civilized (except those proud moments when folks are at their best doing anything they can for the victims...). The forces that attack engage those that defend - and if there's no success there, back off and simply destroy the defender's cities and towns from a safe distance- then go occupy the wasteland that remains - if they can... This is exactly how the Russians did it in WWII - and their savagery against the civilian population hasn't changed a bit either...
Very glad I'm not there and hope our very poor current leaders can find ways to assist the defenders without starting a bigger conflict - and, of course, that's what the attackers are counting on... Just a very bad scene any way you slice it... In fact I'm expecting this to descend into how the Germans described fighting in Warsaw all those years ago - after it was reduced to ruins... "ratten krieg" and if the little german I learned as a kid living there is even close to accurate - it means "rat's war", fought from cellars and destroyed buildings in the rubble that remained...