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Poco Loco

On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 02:37:38 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:53:14 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

The USA has been a big-time
marketer of land mines. Some 155 countries have signed onto a treaty not
to use land mines. The United States is not a signatory.

From what I understand the US use of land mines is almost exclusively
in the DMZ between N and S Korea. It is the only way they think 50,000
troops would have a chance of slowing an invasion of foot soldiers.
I doubt it would buy them an hour. By then the NK bodies would be
piled up high enough to blunt the force of the mines and they would
come on down the peninsula

I've been to the DMZ, where our division is located. Don't recall anything about minefields. Also
developed a study simulating an NK attack. I had a very extensive listing of all the offensive and
defensive forces and weapons - no minefields were included.