They were an indispensable part of our defensive perimeter.
Posted on 06/27/2014 8:01:03 AM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman
WASHINGTON – The White House says the United States will no longer produce or acquire anti-personnel land mines and plans to join an international treaty banning their use.
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More insanity.
Perfectly rational if your goal is to so weaken the U.S. military that we will no longer be able to defend our country.
It does not say if the land mines can not be used in the U.S.. Wonder why?
So we’ll have to get our border mines from a foreign source?
Real smart.
Instead our soldiers will be forced to resort to much more dangerous IEDs.
My personal method of choice to send a loud message is tactical nukes. I could draw a list where they would be very effective.
If I were president for one day, nobody would even think they could get by with trashing our country. The kinder, gentler way doesn’t seem to working very well.
So who thinks that Russia, China, N.Korea, Iran, Cuba, India, Pakistan and Syria will join us?
‘So we’ll have to get our border mines from a foreign source?’
I think we will be dropping leaflets from planes explaining to whomever is invading that this is not very nice of you so please go home.
I am sure that after the Feds do this the invaders will be ashamed of themselves and head back home. You just got to have faith in our betters in D.C. They know best.
They were an indispensable part of our defensive perimeter.
Good gosh!
Do they realize bullets are dangerous as well? And what about those icky hand grenades? Maybe they should switch to soft foam covered bullets and hand grenades so no one is hurt.
Nowadays....................
The only way this can happen is if the senate votes for it.
Once again LIBs prove that they are insane and self-loathing such that they wish to commit suicide.
To appease the left...they are upset Obama is getting involved in Syria.
I am not military so I am assuming these were claymores. Let me know if I am wrong.
No wonder they call you guys grunts with all the stuff you had to pack I expect a lot of grunting went on.
It always amazes me to see our soldiers loaded up like pack mules, I always thought one of the main reasons we kicked the Brits butts was, aside from the redcoats and lining up like half wits, they they packed their entire camp on their backs. Americans seemed to go into battle with only the absolute necessities.
“Once again LIBs prove that they are insane and self-loathing such that they wish to commit suicide.”
Exactly.
Now I think of how someone like Ronald Reagan could have illustrated such foolishness in a political campaign and opened some eyes.
I never see that done today.
That includes claymore mines?..wtf?
The treaty in question refers to dumb landmines, since the late ‘80s, we have been using only smart or command detonated mines. This act by the administration is more smoke and mirrors- while we had not signed on to the treaty in the past, we have not used other than smart/command detonated AP mines (Claymores on a manual firing system, or with a smart detonation controller, not trip wired). We also do not use any dumb AT mines, other than in the DMZ in Korea and in Cuba, around Gitmo.
We use GPS and linked systems like Spider, and other legacy systems that indeed are much safer for our troops as well as more effective than a dumb blunder on to me mine( regardless of who the blunderer is).
Most systems now require either an automatic setting to engage any target within its detection/kill radius, or a specific alert the control station and then accept a command to engage.
Sure they cost much more, but they are recoverable, engage only when commanded or self destruct after employment duration has expired.
We still will use scatterable munitions such as Gator, or other aerial or surface delivered sub-munitions ( I hope) as they as most effective against massed enemy formations.
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