Operation Panther's Claw

[Moscow Mule]

Tactical...the other sort leaves an unpleasant glow which isn't very friendly.

The villages they are fighting in aren't big enough to warrant a tactical nuke. They can be taken out with 2 or 3 2000lb bombs. The use of a low-yield nuke is pointless.

And despite what you might think, tactical nukes still leave behind a trail of nastiness that you wouldn't want to grow anything in for a couple of centuries.

[EternalOptimist]

There were thoughts of using nukes in the earlier Korean unpleasantness, however the targeteers discovered that there really wasn't anything there that would warrant the expense... this applies even more to Afghanistan... the place is a raked over pile of tulipe already, so you'd just be wasting a weapon.

there was talk (mostly in head) about dropping a chemical agent, exfolliant.

apparently it makes all their beards fall off

[Board Game Geek]

Ah okies, thanks for the corrections.

Is there any way then of ensuring a quick and decisive victory, or does it really have to be a long and protracted crusade?

Though I suppose it's good ongoing training for the troops at the end of it, which wouldn't be possible if we turned it in to a glass car park.

[Menelaus]

Squaddies are much cheaper than nukes.

That plutonium & U235 is expensive stuff you know, too good to waste.

HTH.

Oi!

(Menelaus (and Churchill) = ex-squaddies).

[EternalOptimist]

Ah okies, thanks for the corrections.

Is there any way then of ensuring a quick and decisive victory, or does it really have to be a long and protracted crusade?

Though I suppose it's good ongoing training for the troops at the end of it, which wouldn't be possible if we turned it in to a glass car park.

first point. The military, who are the ones being killed, are excellent at coming up with ways of not being killed. They havn't come up with a new idea.


second. Training - its true, the military need (and love) this type of experience, hard as it is to believe. I know lots of serving soldiers and they are gagging to get into action over there.


As an old armchair warrior, my feeling is that we have to attack this from a religious point of view. i.e. persuade the moderate muslims to become more active in promoting a non-violent Islam.

[Pogle]

Who on earth dreams up these ridiculous military operation names?

Smacks of a department of overpaid civil servants with a big dictionary somehwere ....

How about Operation Camel Toe?

[Menelaus]

How about Operation Camel Toe?

That was the first Gulf War!

[EternalOptimist]

How about Operation Camel Toe?

been done.


1915 - Arabia


Major Lawrence - "Achmed - take your men and try to seperate the right flank"

"Captain Sponger - take the horse and seperate the left"


ALL - "And what about you, El Orenze?"


Major Lawrence - "I will take the main body, when the flanks have been divided I will thrust hard and fast through the centre"



source - winnets history of the Arabian campaign 1915