Re: [SG2] weapons

--- "Imre A. Szabo" <ias@sprintmail.com> wrote:

> The best anti-tank weapon is whatever you have when
> you need it.	

If the Anti-tank weapon you have won't Anti- a tank
without a lot of luck and skill and bravery and enemy
stupidity, it's barely better than no ATW at all.

> They're cheap and easy to manufacture compared to
> missiles, if you can
> afford better, you get better; if you can't, you
> make do...

And again, if the Do you Make doesn't Do the Job,
Don't bother doing it at all.

> I disagree here.  Look at Iraq. There is a high
> tech force versus a low
> tech force, 

Again, you've made a leap assuming that the difference
in tech levels between the weapons used by Iraq and
the US today are the same as the difference betwween a
HVC/RR and the cutting edge defenses available in the
future.  I'd argue that the level of parity between
the US and the Iraqui guerillas today is, although
widely disparate, far closer to equal than the
difference between a RR and a PDS- protected tank or
PA trooper of the future.

and while the high tech force can go
> anywhere they want, they
> have yet even come close to breaking the will of the
> enemy to resist.  While
> the US "controls" Iraq, the US has yet to make Iraq
> economically vaible,
> hence guerrilla warfare could be very useful in war
> in the future.  

I would not argue with you there, but you're
digressing wildly.  The discussion is about the
tactical viability of a given weapon on a future
battlefield, not the strategic nature of that
battlefield.

> Unless they sub-orbitally detonate a high yield
> designer nuke and bath the
> entire hemisphere in EMP; then everybody will be low
> tech...  More Thrust
> had EMP missiles...

Ummm.... in which case you've rendered it a Low-on-Low
conflict, and I believe I was the one who mentioned
them to begin with.  But you have not shown how, under
normal operaations, a RR/HVC can hope to defeat a PDS
on a more-than-occasional basis, or even more often
than anecdotally.

=====
"Teach a man to make fire, and he will be warm for a day.  Set a man on
fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life."   -- John A.
Hrastar

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