Weird War

     When choosing the route for your attack be careful.
Don't choose the hill which is dark and seemingly
unoccupied.  This is where the British forces will be.

	  Comment from a captured Chinese battle manual
read out in the House of Commons on 10 July 1952.

     The Americans do not like holding defensive
positions.  They have been trained for rapid withdrawals.
The Americans do not understand infiltration and feel
very naked when anybody threatens their flank or rear.

	  Secret report to the British Chiefs of Staff
from Korea, 1952.

     The tendency of American units was to give up some
ground, which enabled the Japanese to fight in a planned
pattern.  In the case of the Australians, however severe
the attack, they did not move, which disappointed and
confused our soldiers.

	  Lt. Gen. Tsutoma Yashihara, Chief of Staff,
	       18th Japanese Army Group,
	       New Guinea, 1942.

     During the contest for the northern ridgeline, the
rocket launcher team of 3 Platoon destroyed three T-34
tanks.  Another was destroyed by Private J.H. Stafford of
D Company, who crept within 20 metres of it before
setting fire to its external petrol tank by a well placed
burst from his Bren gun.  The tanks ammunition then
exploded.

	  Australia in the Korean War 1950-53, Volume II:
	       Combat Operations,
	       R.J. O'Neill

     Emphasising the diversification of the ex-Soviet
manufacturing plants as they struggle to survive,
Yakovlev has re-started production of its World War Two
Yak-3 fighter at Orenburg against an order for 20
aircraft from a Santa Monica museum in America for
wealthy warbird collectors.

	  Air International, July 1993

     The most important lesson I learned...was that the
winner of a gunplay was the one who took his time.  The
second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I
would shun flashy trick shooting - grandstand play... In
my whole life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know
a really proficient gun-fighter who had anything but
contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally
shot from the hip.

	  `Wyatt Earp'
	       Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters

MIAMI:... Hertz gives every car renter a manual warning
drivers to keep doors and windows locked, and blow your
horn "if someone suspicious approaches your vehicle while
at a red light or stop sign.

     A local newspaper writer has suggested that each
rental car should be equipped with a pistol with
instructions to the driver that if stopped at lights he
(sic) should "open fire on any pedestrian within a 30-
yard radius."

	  World News,
	       The Advertiser, 3 April 1993

     [The laws of armed conflict] cover humanitarian
aspects of war such as the treatment of prisoners,
civilian and the wounded.  They also cover the way wars
are fought, for example, by restricting or banning things
such as weapons that could cause unnecessary suffering
and booby traps, feigning surrender, spying and the
denial of mercy to an adversary.
     The [proliferation of these laws in recent years]
have brought military lawyers out of the office on to the
battlefield.  During the Gulf War, the British ground
forces went in with six legal advisers.  The American
forces took more than 200.

	  `Caught in a Legal Battlefield'
	       The Australian, 5 July 1994