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Yes, we ARE a defence force..

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  • #52
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,465 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Mairt wrote: »
    And just getting back to the Balkans, how would British or American forces have dealth with this?;

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM1Vbs5L0t4


    I dare say they'd have bombed sh*t out of the place.

    Well, not necessarily. I'd give it about a 50-50 chance.

    However, if one must look to Balkan hypotheticals, one must postulate as to what the result may have been had a US battalion been guarding Srebrenica vs a Dutch one (Or an Irish one, for that matter). It has been many years since the US military has ever decided to not put up a fight because they thought they didn't have enough firepower available to them. Mainly because it's been a very long time since a US unit hasn't had a lot of firepower on the other end of a radio.

    We may be a hammer, but we have our uses. The Irish may not have been in Kosovo in the first place if it wasn't for some slight US bombing the s*&t out of things just beforehand.

    NTM


  • #53
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    However, if one must look to Balkan hypotheticals, one must postulate as to what the result may have been had a US battalion been guarding Srebrenica vs a Dutch one (Or an Irish one, for that matter).


    I appricate what your saying, but on the flip side of that coin you'd have to look at the Irish experience in Lebanon.

    While we were never strong enough to prevent a total Israeli anililation of Lebanon we never shirked from our commitment to peace there either.

    We operated under a very weak UN mandate, and while the USA and Great Britain (Multi National Force) retreated from Beirut in 1984 we didn't, and stayed the course in the south.


  • #54
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,465 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Fair point, but it was Congress that pulled the US forces back from MNF, not any lack of spirit from the troops or officers.

    NTM


  • #55
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    Fair point, but it was Congress that pulled the US forces back from MNF, not any lack of spirit from the troops or officers.

    NTM

    I didn't mean to suggest that. I'd never doubt your guys will to fight.


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