I hear you .No critisizm intended whatsoever of you guys.
I just wanted to point out that our experiences has taught us not to trust the military to protect us - thats why we have had enthusiastic conscription and gusn in every house for 50 years ..Thats all coming to an end now ,with the increased focus on assymetrical warfare and operations abroad to quell the insurgencies in the sands and the Hindukush.
As you say - we thought the same thing back in the 90s when we were young and running our guns on the tundra up north .We were told ( unofficially )that our gear and resources were for two purposes :
start a shooting match so that no political solution would leave us in any diplomatic capacity aligned with the invading Ruskies
hold out for 14 days to allow the US- ,Roya-l,Konglichje- Marines and the Canucks to get here and push the communist aggressors out into the North Sea.
I believe we also had Bundeswehr and Italian Alpini alotted to our sector if the big one went off.
Of course -it was all winding down then, and everything was sort of in a vacuum .No idelogically motivated superpower enemy at our border anymore ? huh?
I still believe in conscription and that our military should be geared towards keeping our soverignity intact on our home turf .But I dont feel good about pulling out of all the shitholes either..
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
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...
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