From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Phil Payne wrote:
>> Wait till they get good non Radar/IR manpad.
>>
>> Summat like starstreak. Lazer Beamrider with a 2ndary use against armour
>> etc.
>>
>> If I were Lebanon I'd be wandering round to the Saudis etc asking for
>> some long range russki SAMs & preferably some passive radar.
>
> There are some clever buggers out there, who are not - by and large - as
> corrupt as the US defence industry.  After all, for all the public funding
> that's gone into Patriot, you would expect it to actually _work_, wouldn't
> you? And it bloody doesn't.
>
> IMO US grunts on the ground are not getting anything like the tools that
> have been specced for them and promised to them - let down massively by the
> industrial/defence complex.
>
> The other side has a greater (life/death) incentive.
>
>


At the mo I feel that in both the case of the US in Iraq & now the
Israelis there is a little too much emphasis on tech toys & that's part
of the problem in that it can lead to a self-deceptive sense of
belief/confidence.

The human brain has always shown itself capable of out smarting a techie
toy as soon as a human brain knows what the techie toy is.

Normally by the simplest means e.g. the US/Israel pour tons of treasure
into control of the air....OK...we'll tunnel e.g. houses in a town are all
linked via trapdoors in the cellar. Now try tracking someone from the
air...

Adam

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