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From: cdr@amdcad.AMD.COM (Carl Rigney)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: The death of mobile war
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Date: 16 Aug 89 06:15:53 GMT
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From: uunet.UU.NET!bnr-fos!bnr-di!borynec (James Borynec)
You state that advances in technology will increase offensive power.
I agree, this however, may not make for mobile war.  Look at the American
Civil War, and WWI.  The advance of technological killing power made
everyone dig in.  Thus it effectively killed mobility.  

If technology killed mobile war once, it may again.

j.borynec
  
  (btw.  Your observations on small scale war are very good.  Note that
  airmobile troops are subject to "the thousand yard stare" and burn out
  very quickly as they see a different battle every day.)