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Subject: Have we seen the last conventional war?
AchtungLagg    5/6/2004 2:18:24 AM
With all the changes recently...have we seen the end to conventional war? I.e. war between modernized nations, or even war between nations in general...or is that in the past, forever? (i know using words such as "last" and "forever" are too general, however, the point should be emphasized, by these adjectives i mean except for small oubursts here or there, have we seen an end to major conventional conflict?
 
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Siddar    Shrinking Armys   5/7/2004 5:28:58 AM
As most armys around the world continue to shrink in size the chances of conventinal wars shrink. Not because they cant be fought but dealing with the after effects of them with small armys is very difcult.
 
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fall out    RE:Shrinking Armys   5/7/2004 6:41:35 AM
alot of armies are downsizing not for purely economical reasons, but for qualititive reasons, even the PLA are downsizing the number of troops in their army by about half a million for the reason of attempting to lift the quality of the rest of the troops. that doesnt mean that they wont be able to fight a conventional war as well if they had more troops, in fact, you could argue that they could fight better, due to increased efficiency, effectiveness and the overall quality of troops/equipment/tactics.
 
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jastayme3    RE:Have we seen the last conventional war?    5/14/2004 11:03:16 PM
Didn't they think we had seen the last conventional war-in 1913 don't be hasty
 
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jastayme3    RE:Have we seen the last conventional war?    5/14/2004 11:05:45 PM
only 300 of those were "peacefull", which really only meant a lull between fighting ................................ during which they probably called each other names
 
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Nasty German Idiot    RE:Have we seen the last conventional war?    5/15/2004 8:34:54 AM
Since when do less soldiers mean less War ? Think about the old times when they fought battles with 3000 Soldiers against 5000 ...
 
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fullamongo    RE:Have we seen the last conventional war?    5/15/2004 9:27:18 AM
No. I'll give you good odds on there being another old fashioned conventional war in the next 3 years. Probably in africa.
 
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Bronix    RE:Have we seen the last conventional war?    5/16/2004 11:54:02 AM
The last convential war will be 'Battle of Taiwan' Between PLA and Taiwan arm force(US equip)
 
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Prometheus Bound    Is there still more than one person on Earth?   5/17/2004 7:14:06 PM
Is there still more than one person on Earth? Then there will be wars. The adjective conventional suggests non-nuclear ? As Einstein once said, the forth world war will be fought with sticks and stones (decidedly conventional) More to the point, it seems that most can agree that there will continue to be regional wars among nations without nukes (kinda like doctors without borders, but different). I think increasing populations and dimensioning resources will ensure that nations will continue to fight for precious bodies of water or fertile lands (Golan Heights anyone?) China and the US seem to be the only contenders to start a really big one, at least in the near future. One can?t rule out smaller hot-spots dragging everyone else along. Just think what would happen if Iran decided to have a go at the US forces in Iraq ? maybe the rest of the Arab world doesn?t join in, but maybe they do. I really think the only thing that will convince humans to stop fighting each other is to introduce a non-human enemy that everyone can fight.
 
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