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

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Mon Apr 7 12:05:44 CDT 2003


On 7 Apr 2003, Seb Potter wrote:

> > > > 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?
>
> Nah, they ride single file so that American pilots can strafe and bomb
> their allies

...and their journalists...

> more effectively. ;)

Just in case this didn't get reported over there:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2921807.stm

Cheers
Martin

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