Bernardz wrote:

:I suppose it depends on your definition of skilled and fairly skilled.
:Interesting much of the labor force was actually slave labor.
:
:Sufficient to say that for the purpose of this discussion of asymmetric
:warfare, a major power today should be able to gather and train a labor
:forces to manufacture such a class of weapon which to combat these
:weapons would require a much greater force by the US.

Except that this particular class of weapon does you no good, since
you won't have launching facilities for it for very long. Also note
that what we're talking about now is a bit more sophisticated guidance
than "aim it and when it runs out of fuel it falls on the target".
This requires more skilled tradesmen to implement, among other things.

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"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
-- Charles Pinckney