[CRBDeuce]

"His SECDEF Les Aspin denied the commanders their requests for gunships and APCs AND ammo, because the Clinton administration didn't want to appear to be escalating the hostilities." The Obama administration appears fully capable of repeating that trick! With any luck, our troops have prepared for that contingency (along with others that our Kangaroo Kongress may dream up).

[zipper]

Yes if they’d had APCs the ammo would have been much less ofan issue - they were stuck with limited supplies and had to fight their way out. Killed about 300 skinnies, and that’s a conservative estimate.