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Originally Posted by headquarters
...and as Legbreaker says -many professional military men will head for the hills because of the seemingly hopeless situation .Politicians and business men will back out in many cases -not willing to bear the responsibility for decisions that will lead to deaths.The fight is then left to reservists,volunteers and whoever else happens to be caught in the fighting.
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At the time we were reservists which was one of the reasons the hills were looking so good - home turf which some of us knew like the backs of our hands, not to mention our unit had suffered through quite a number of years of cutbacks in funding - we didn't think we'd be a priority to receive ammo, weapons, body armour (not that it was all that common then), and everything else necessary for a modern battlefield.
Fortunately most of us had our own arsenals to bolster the worn out M60s and two dozen L1A1s in the armoury, not to mention access to plenty of explosives (much of it home made).
The way we saw it, the regular soldiers would be toast in a rather short space of time and the majority of civilians would either choose not to fight, or be rolled over in a heartbeat. Us poor reservists along with whoever we could find willing and able to listen to us had the best chance of resistance long term.
Nearly 20 years later that attitude seems rather naive, but, we were young and thought we knew the answers to everything...