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Originally Posted by jimbuna
"A desperation weapon at best"  |
Not really, just a simple case of doing the math. The Soviet has something like an army of 2 million with 40,000 tanks, most of that stationed where it was a threat to Europe. The US had a lot less (its like 1.4 mil total armed forces today, Navy, Army, USAF the whole thing) but it was stationed an ocean away or part of commitments in other theaters (Korea, Japan, SEA etc.). Giving three guys in a jeep a way to wipe out a tank company would help even the odds.
Then there is Communist China, the world's most populated nation. They could probably draft an equivalent number of troops to the entire population of the US! Just think if we had these weapons in Korea? Would those Chinese human way attacks have worked?
If you are inferior in
Numbers make up for it in
Technology.
Yea its scary but CBRN weapons are a way of achieving superiority via the Technological route.