asymetric warfare

In article ,
phil hunt wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:09:48 +0100, Michael Ash wrote:

Well, don't forget that only a very tiny percentage of any regular army
will be composed of people fanatical enough to become suicide bombers.
Your four-million strong Elbonian People's Happy Army will turn into a
handful of suicide bombers and a whole bunch of deserters if you tried
that strategy. Not to say it may not be the best use of that army, but I
don't think it would be that effective.

Indeed. Developing and caching weapons that allow people to be
guerrillas with reduced risk to themselves (such as time-delayed
mortars) would seem an obvious thing to do.

But there are no ranging shots with such mortars: Its fire for effect
from the first round. They'd have trouble hitting a barn, if it was
smaller than 10 Downing Street.

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