(Derek Lyons) writes:

(John Schilling) wrote:

High bandwidth and low latency they are not, but adequate for getting
out the "Execute War Plan Blue ASAP" message to people who already have
their part of War Plan Blue in sealed envelopes on-site.

Assuming the people who are sending the messages have already trained
the birds to fly to the various locations...

They are a valid backup method for some uses, but one that takes
considerable work to establish and maintain.


Yes, but the NKPA has had nothing *to* do for fifty years, except prepare
for a massive battle with the US/ROK across a narrow and fixed frontier.
If they want carrier pigeons as a backup, they can set up and maintain
the network. If they don't have a backup carrier-pigeon network, it's
because they are confident that they have alternate methods that are
even more robust in the face of all the usual US countermeasures.

Given their predilection for digging deep, I wonder if there's such a
thing as a carrier mole :-)


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