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Originally Posted by Medic
To answer the question, the Finnish doctrine prior to the Ottawa Treaty banning landmines was to mine the hell out of most of the Eastern Finland
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Actually the Fins can do this still as the Ottawa Treaty only covers non command anti personel mines, it dose apply to anti tank mines, claymores, the new XM-7 Spider Mines or booby traps
There is also nothing that prevents(Grey Area) thrid party from mining a coutry or storage of land mines by a non signing country.
In in theory the US could have a stockplie of it's own Army equipment (land mine) in Finland. As long as they are under US control the Fins claim could that the treaty is still enforced as it not their stockplie, and they are for use by the US which did not sign the treaty.
The Treat also states that each country can have a "small" number of land mines for training purposes, so have 40,000 no stock for training, that one per regular solider.
In Short there is not a document written by a man that another man can't find a way around.