Re: [FT] Size of "Countries" in FT

Beth Fulton wrote:
 
>	  As for fighting in Antarctica! Count me out!
	
	Funny you should mention it.  In L. Neil Smith's "The
Probability
Broach" a war is fought over Antarctica in an alternative history.  In
1957, the Russian Czar (Marxism never developed in this universe)
attempted to claim the continent of Antarctica--which was a mining
colony at the time--for the Rodina.  A volunteer force from the North
American Confederacy headed off to face the Russians.  Smith briefly
describes how the Ruskies fared:

	"One the ice, attrition had its way with the first Siberian
waves.	Now
troops from the warmer Motherland, lacking the preparation and
technology for an environment that the Steppes seem tropical.  North
Americans in heated space suits simply led them where they could die
most efficiently."
  
Later,
Mark A. Siefert

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