Re:Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade
by xradionut on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @10:40AM
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Personal firearms are worthless against NBC weapons. And I wouldn't be surprised to know genetic weapons are being developed...
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Re:Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade
by shabble on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @01:24PM
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Not in an insurgency, low-intensity warfare sort of way. Not unless you can somehow make them very targeted.
"We had to destroy the [village] in order to save it" doesn't really apply if you consider, say, New York City.
As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 (and, of course, successful terrorist acts over the last decade) demonstrated, low tech is still Good Enough for a lot of purposes.