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Originally Posted by scorpio_rocks
Thanks for the Ottawa land mine treaty and Convention on Cluster Munitions changes to the OOBs  |
You do know that UK, for example, has
not abandoned land mines fully?
Anti Tank mines are in no way banned and UK also retains stocks of other land mines that could be used in the event of a major war?
Whilst Britain destroyed some of its stocks of land mines in 2005, "some stocks were kept for use in exceptional circumstances"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_r...ines/36075.stm
The whole anti land mine thing really was nonsense anyway, the only thing that caused problems was the indesciminate use of anti personnel mines without mapping where they were, something British forces never did. Sadly the late, very, very, far from great Princess of Wales got involved and feels took over from facts.
UK getting rid of cluster munitions was also done against the advice of all UK military advisors.
The idiots who support such bans can feel virtuous, while, as always, their own servicemen will do all the dying when push comes to shove.