The Great Pretense - The Clinton Administration and Land Mines
Abstract
Today, and for the foreseeable future, the issue confronting the world community is the widespread illegitimate use of an otherwise legitimate, and as some believe, a necessary weapon that has caused unnecessary suffering of epidemic proportions to non-combatants. There are actually two separate problems. The first deals with the existing problem of land mines, the second deals with the global trade in land mines -- the production, use, transfer, and stockpiling of land mines. Other than to describe the impact of land mines already in the ground, the problem of existing land mines will not be addressed in this paper. Locating these mines poses a substantial technological challenge far different from current military breaching techniques through known minefields. Instead, they require technologies to locate and destroy small numbers of mines left after a long-forgotten battle, set out on a perimeter by small patrols making camp, deliberating placed to drive civilians from an area, or even those washed from the steep hills of heavenly guarded borders.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADA442084
Entities
People
- Jerald L. Folkerts
Organizations
- National War College