[thechat] Lanchester's Law: Too Few American Soldiers

William Anderson neuro at well.com
Sun Apr 6 00:11:52 CST 2003


Chris Marsh wrote:
> > http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/WhosCounting/whoscounting.html
> > >
> > > A maths professor explains why the US probably hasn't sent enough
> > > troops to Iraq, which is possibly why it's progressing slower than
> > > expected.
> >
> > But if you send twice as many troops, you're giving
> > the enemy twice as many targets to shoot at, and
> > you can expect twice as many deaths.
>
> Not if you stack 'em up one behind the other ;)

So you're basically saying they always ride single file, to hide their
numbers?

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