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Date Posted: 09:31:21 04/03/03 Thu
Author: Khronos
Author Host/IP: ip-66-80-65-31.dsl.sea.megapath.net / 66.80.65.31
Subject: hehe...
In reply to: Kilus 's message, "However..." on 07:34:57 04/03/03 Thu

There is a simple axiom about life that always applies:

No bucks no Buck Rogers!

It takes money to fight. You can get very low tech in your methods and do a lot of damage to an enemy (the 9/11 hijackings, the Vietcong digging spike pits and rolling logs down a hill, etc.), but the thing is low tech can only be so effective. It isn't exactly subtle, and eventually your adversary wises up to the tactics and then they become even less effective. Even guerrilla warfare requires economic sacrifice. The dudes running around in the jungle (or wherever) could be spending that time producing something on an economic level (i.e. growing food). Instead they are bombing supply trains or digging spike pits or whatever. That may seem like a small sacrifice, but to be effective low tech guerrilla warfare requires a lot of people for it to be effective (Castro overwhelmed Batista with sheer numbers). That means the economic loss across communities and families can be substantial, especially given that such people generally aren't all that well off in the first place. That's why guerrilla combatants like to find some rich foreign government or entity that is in alignment with them to finance their activities.

These basic needs for warfare are even more magnified when you look at conflict between major economic powers. At it's most basic and primal level war is about attrition. Whoever can maintain the military pressure against their adversary for the longest wins. When you get down to it there really isn't any fundamental distinction between battles that occur in the field or in the market. The two are inexorably connected.

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