Re: Vietnam and modern combat

At 11:44 PM +0200 4/28/04, Derk Groeneveld wrote:
>
>But yeah, there's some pictures, and many more 
>in Den Helder (Dutch naval base). Also, there's 
>one sub's crew that at some point took to 
>wearing caps with their sub "eating" a Nimitz 
>class carrier... Apparantly they'd "sunk" it 
>during an exercise and got away to boot - much 
>to the US admiral's displeasure. Diesel subs in 
>shallow waters can be downright nasty....

When I poke my dilettante, military, hobbyist 
head into naval affairs, the articles I see in 
things like Proceedings and other Naval Journals 
seem to indicate a big concern over littorial 
combat and how to handle it with a blue water 
navy.

-- 
--
Ryan Gill	       rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
----------------------------------------------------------
      |        |		   |	     -==----	  
      | O--=-  |		   |	    /_8[*]°_\	   
      |_/|o|_\_|       | _________ |	    /_[===]_\	  
      / 00DA61 \       |/---------\|	 __/	     \--- 
   _w/|=_[__]_= \w_    // [_]  o[]\\   _oO_\	     /_O|_
  |: O(4) ==	O :|  _Oo\=======/_O_  |____\	    /____|
  |---\________/---|  [__O_______W__]	|x||_\	   /_||x| 
   |s|\        /|s|   |s|/BSV 575\|s|	|x|-\|	   |/-|x| 
   |s|=\______/=|s|   |s|=|_____|=|s|	|x|--|_____|--|x| 
   |s|		|s|   |s|	  |s|	|x|	      |x| 
'60 Daimler Ferret '42 Daimler Dingo '42 Humber MkIV (1/3)
----------------------------------------------------------