From: ab.chaplin@yourfinger.rogers.com 
  
 "Allen"  wrote in message 
 news:Wbe3f.4709$vD4.313447@news20.bellglobal.com... 
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 > "Andrew Chaplin"  wrote in message 
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 > > The writer plainly does not understand what a strategic target is, 
 and 
 > > I wonder what he or she meant by "targets that are hidden." 
 > 
 > Intriguing topic! Isn't there some source of more info? If we are 
 > spending millions it has certainly been kept very [quiet.] 
  
 The whole project is the basis of a major cap-badge war on the land 
 staff, at last report. No one is happy about it. The armour branch has 
 eyes on it because it is direct fire. The Gunners want to keep it, 
 since it has a range around 8 Km and more, shoots across boundaries 
 and rather farther than the understood area of influence of an armour 
 battle group commander, so it needs fire support co-ordination -- plus 
 it has been an artillery resource for about 17 years now. 
  
 The two senior arms are fighting for survival. What I believe is 
 required is a re-organisation of the land force along lines of two 
 combat arms: one technological and encompassing Gunners and Sappers 
 (and perhaps the Jimmies), and a second based on manoeuvre that rolls 
 together the armour and infantry. 
 -- 
 Andrew Chaplin 
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