[Baron Munchausen]

I made no claim that there will not be conventional wars in the future. I was merely reinforcing the point TerranC was trying to make that tanks would not be 'obsolete' in the future but merely reserved for special situations. There are many situations in which they are not useful. Defending against terrorism is definitely one situation where they are not useful.

Guerilla style wars arise when one or both sides either cannot or do not want to engage in fully armed combat. The current situation with Al Qaida and related Groups is a case of one side being unable to fight -- they would if they could, but the many proxy wars during the Cold War were an instance of both sides not wanting to 'risk it all' in full scale warfare even though they were quite able to.

[ April 13, 2003, 01:53: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]