Re: [SG2] weapons

At 2:56 PM +0000 11/25/03, Matt Tope wrote:
>Imre wrote:
>
>>If you look at battles, you are correct.  If you look at wars, you are
>>wrong.
>>Korea -- high tech force stalemated.
>>Vietnam -- high tech force defeated.

This was not a defeat militarily, but politically. The US kicked the 
living shit out of the VC and the NVA. We never put our full brunt of 
force against North Vietnam.

>Lebonon -- high tech force defeated.
Political loss
>
>
>Lets add a few British conflicts to the list just to get a slighty
wider
>perspective on low tech vs high tech,
>
>Malaya -- High tech force wins
>Burma -- High tech force wins
>Sierra Leone -- High tech force wins

WWII -- Mass production over super high tech (it's marginal that the 
Germans were more advanced in all fields. We started to beat them to 
the punch on fighters in production for quite a while there).

>Of course the high tech force (Britain) won in all of these cases by
the
>high tech in a more precise manner rather than relying on high tech
>firepower, and had full political support.

There's more to winning the war than technology. The Battle Of France 
had arguably more technology on the side of the French and British in 
regards to Tank design. But the German's with the smaller force, won 
through determination, elan and better coordination.

>PS: Can Grenada count as a war? I thought in a war both sides had to
shoot.

There was shooting. Just mostly when the Red troops had superiority.

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