Re: [semi OT] Women wargamers

What if the objective is to take the starport for use a a forward
supply base?  The commanders aren't going to be to happy
to have to use a couple of thousand acres of radioactive glass
or a 2 mile crater as a supply depot.

Slash a burn is only a viable tactic if you can afford to lose
the economic resources that you are destroying.  Rarely is it
cheaper to destroy and rebuild than to capture and modify.

Case in point, why didn't we just lob a tactical nuke a Saddam?
We couldn't afford the political, economical, environmental or
moral repercussions from such an action.  Just because you have
the big guns, doesn't always mean you get to use them, because of
considerations other than military ones.

--Binhan

Los wrote:

> John Skelly wrote:
>
> > A million or 2 inhabitants.  Read my post again.  I win the space
> > battle, I
> > sit in orbit, unless you have a relief fleet en route, I grab rocks
or
> > drop
> > nukes at my leisure.  You could have the best armored divs in the
> > universe
> > why do I have to fight them when I don't?
> >
>
> Ahh the utopian vision of future confllict.It cracks me up how
everyone
> assumes owning Space will just cause whatever resistance to knuckle
> under. I suppose every government is going to sanction the
> indescriminate use of nuclear weapons or mas drivers in every
occasion.
> What are you, playing the Imperial Forces in a Star Wars Scenario?
There
> could be any number of political or other reason for not nuking from
> orbit. Overwhelming air and Naval Superiuority very rarely means jack
> shit to the grunt on the ground that has to go in and winkle the
bastard
> out. Especially after the first minute of stepping off watever
transport
> and finding a mass of fire coming at you. Sure it can help a bit if
> applied intelligently, but ususally you still have to get in there.
> Especially when the president is on the Theater Commanders back to DO
> something. Seems to me the vast majority of military operations
> throughout history have had some form of political influence of
pressure
> on them forcing the commander to do stuff he either doesn't want to
do,
> or doesn't make sense.
>