04-10-2006, 12:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-10-2006, 12:45 AM by Occhidiangela.)
Ghostiger,Apr 8 2006, 05:17 PM Wrote:Actually walls work pretty well if you tend them.Ghost:
Gaurds with no walls work poorly. Walls with with no gaurds work poorly. Sure a few would get through, but it would be a tiny trickle compared to todays deluge.
And please Occhi I though you were a bit better than Drasca on reasonable examples. The Great Wall of China?
The walls involved in the old Iron Curtain worked pretty well. We loved the stories of people who got through, but many more were coaght and countless more didnt even try because of the bad odds.
EDIT: I see Munkay pointed out the same things I did.
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The zone defense in depth, the death strips, the search lights, the machine gun towers, the will to shoot to kill. That is what made the "Berlin Wall" so effective, it was the MEN with the guns, the surveillance system, and the will to use deadly force that created the effective barrier.
Occhi
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete