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

Frank Haber wrote:
> Adam, couple of questions:
>
> 1. What's the "borders" part of "bases and
borders?"  Was there a border
> around Dien Bien Phu?  Gloria?
>

It's different in a desert. Deserts are often flat for miles around &
doing a dbp etc to a desert base is a pretty exciting challenge. esp in the
era of ir surveillance etc (cold flat desert...hot bodies...etc).

> 2. How does a walled-off |fire|base keep the Shia from attritting the
> Sunni down to a smoking heap?  Doesn't that approach have near-zero
> political force?
>

No...it's the over the horizon big stick approach. Basically it's the
"we have the guns to win any serious mano a mano type fight so...you
don't want us to support your opponents do you.....?"

Wrt the sunni.....ummmm...they will be attritted down but in ways which
having your people in the towns & cities wouldn't stop anyway (e.g. how
many of the recent assassinations/group killings have your troops managed
to stop?)


> (I swear, I may have attitude, but the above are possibly naive but
> genuine questions.  I have no agenda.  I am also Barney and the yellow
> Teletubby. But you get the idea.)

It's going to be quite a nasty business but the idea of a repressed
majority turning round all magnaminous & forgiving entirely the
minority which has suppressed it has basically only happened in South
Africa & then....the non-black groups need to know that they are
minorities etc.

However wrt getting out & having the place somehwat more
peaceful....then don't annoy the tits off the locals by churning round
their streets looking all hard.

Yes that does mean turning a blind eye to shia/interior min death squads,
but you knew that when you went in.

Adam

Adam

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