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- From: "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
- Subject: Re: Battleship Diplomacy
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- Organization: NCR Corporation -- Law Department
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:50:42 GMT
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- From "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
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- Doc Benzene writes:
- #the city--it's hard to call 16" salvos in reply to
- #sporadic light artillery shelling "counter-battery" work.
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- Why? The purpose of counterbattery fire is to silence the other party's
- indirect fire assets, either by destroying personnel and materiel or
- otherwise convincing them that there are safer things to do than continue
- their firing. In a nutshell, you point out in a direct way that his
- artillery fire will be more costly to him than to you. In that respect
- 16" salvos are an ideal counterbattery weapon in that the opposing
- artillery gets the point real fast whether they're on target or not.
- Additionally the BB is out of range of most of the artillery being
- suppressed and is relatively immune to those systems that can reach.
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- Similarly in Desert Storm, the MLRS rockets fired in a counterbattery
- role may have had a greater cost than the materiel they were used
- against, but one dose of "steel rain" was usually all it took.....
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- Ed Rudnicki erudnick@pica.army.mil All disclaimers apply
- "War must be looked upon as a business, and subject, like any other business,
- to business principles. War is the business of destruction of life and
- property of an enemy.....The most deadly and destructive implements of war
- are the most humane, and the producers of them may justly be looked upon as
- humanitarians." ----- Hudson Maxim (the other Maxim)
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