RE: [semi OT] Women wargamers

Good point.  If you thought your starport thing through you may come to
this
conclusion: Starport is FIBUA (street fighting) what better way to clear
out
a starport than with infantry armed with PA?  The other alternative
would be
to set up a DZ collect your forces and mount an assault (great scenario)
but
why?  To give them time to collect a defense?  To fight through to the
star
port just to find hand to hand when you get there?  Please read my
response
to jatkins in terms of my future vu=ision isn't the be all and end all.

Have to add this: that radioactive glass would make one fine landing
strip
;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Binhan Lin [SMTP:Binhan.Lin@UCHSC.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 12:50 PM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	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.
> >
> 
>