Re: Patrol vs. the Cave Dudes

--- Thomas Barclay <kaladorn@magma.ca> wrote:

> [Tomb] Not denigrating your ability, but are 
> you a trained IMINT specialist? I think not. 
> I'd expect the IMINT specialist to have 
> about as much chance of recognizing a 
> random pile of engineer gear as you do of 
> reading most sat intel photos (even good 
> ones) right. 

Bingo.

Which means you need plenty of trained IMINT
specialists, who can only stare at film for so long
before they go crosseyed.  How long to go over a
planet?  I'd have to ask my old man (IMINT warrent
officer) and I'm not sure he'd be able to give me a
good answer.  But I do know that at one point he
worked in a large office full of guys who spent their
time looking at El Salvador.  Do you think that if
they could find all the FMLN the Salvadoran war would
have lasted as long as it did?	And FMLN has a much
larger signature than a pack of neanderthals.
 
> Also, I'd love to see John write an 
> appreciation from the perspective of the 
> enemies of his Nea Rhomanoi of how they 
> would take apart the forces he arrays 
> against them. One would think that his 
> force structures may have assets, but they 
> must also have drawbacks (all do) and it 
> would be interesting to see how the NAC, 
> NSL, etc would attack them. 

Besides being really thin on the ground?  If there are
weaknesses I'm not sure what they are.	After all, if
I did I'd fix it.  Go ahead and try it--I'm basically
reduced to breaking out the 'hot' packages.

John

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