Re: [SG] (ish) Non-lethal anti-riot gel

--- Brian Bilderback <bbilderback@hotmail.com> wrote:

> crack, "Some would argue that the Italian Army has
> ALWAYS used non-lethal 
> force..."

Hrm. . . 

The Italian Army got more of a bad rap than it
deserved--the Alpini, Bersaglieri, and Paras fought
well.  Their armored and artillery units fought
valiantly but without weaponry worth a half a tinker's
damn.  In some cases Italian artillery batteries fired
at British tanks until the tanks physically ran over
the pieces (the Brits lacked a decent HE round. . . ).

On the other hand, the regular Italian line infantry
was indeed very, very bad, and it's hard to fight well
without line infantry.

John

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