RE: Wire Obstacles

At 01:29 PM 5/9/98 +1000, you wrote:
>I think some people are forgetting that unless the governments involved
>are fighting with a scorched earth policy then the ground has to be
>"tidied up" afterwards. Think about the largest motivating factor
behind
>the drive to ban land-mines - the indiscrimante laying of non-ferrous
>mines that are hard to detect and; being mad of plastic, have tended to
>float away in the rain and monsoons of Cambodia, Burma etc, to lodge in
>agricultural areas and cause horrific damage to civilians years after.
>
[snip]
Yup, during Vietnam, the US was, for a while anyway, air dropping
roughly
$1 million worth of AP landmines into Laos...every day. It doesn't take 
a genius to figure this is roughly 3 million mines every month...