I realize I might have to back down from this, that WP may very well have been used as an anti-personnel weapon. But I think the charges are not as clear as the left makes them out to be. (Even if it was incendiary, it still would have been used legally.) I'd say the limb I'm going out on is at least shorter and stronger than the "kills everything within 150 meters without burning their clothing" limb the KosKids went out on.

To kind of flesh out your iteration of the thesis behind the "shake & bake" fire, we simply need to remember that the primary purpose of WP is as a screening agent. The enemy knows this.

Fearing they are about to be overrun by U.S. forces emerging from such a smokescreen, they panic and jump out of their spiderholes and trenches, only to be shreaded by carefully timed H.E. fire that catches them in the open.

All the former artllerymen that I talk to (and more seem to be emailing me as time wears on) discount WP as an anti-personnel weapon, and it was their job to most efficiently kill people, I think they would know.

The more I learn about WP, the left I feel it wold be used against people, and the science proves conclusively it could not produce "poison gas" as the far left claims.

I think this might be the place to plug my favourite weapon, the neutron bomb. As you know, this device produces a minimal balst, cofined to a few undred yards, but gives off a wide ranging radiation wave capable of penetrating armour and walls. This radiation is damaging to living tissue but leaves structures intact. So, when the radiation dies down, the invading army can simply "bring out the dead," and occupy intact buildings.

Sort of the perfect capitalist weapon.

Kill humans, keep the capital investment intact.

Yeah, obviously atomic bombs with blast radii of only "a few hundred yards" are pretty much harmless. I mean, what's a square mile or two of smoking rubble?

Keep in mind the deadly neutron flux radius isn't that much larger than the regular blast radius either.

The whole point of it was that it was useful as a tactical weapon, against troop concentrations. I doubt it would be very good in city situations.

All this, of course, ignores the fact that it's a rather indiscriminate weapon. It will kill whatever's inside its rather large (massive, compared to conventional weapons) blast radius and irradiate a lot of the objects in there too. What does this have to do with WP which has a blast radius of a couple of meters and beyond that pretty much just disperses a smoke screen? Seems like pretty much polar opposites of the weapon spectrum to me.

Nicholas...exactly!

My information is that the radiation kill area for the netron bomb is much lkarger than the blast zone. To me, the perfect weapon would be one that had no blast zone and a huge radiation kill radius. See? The idea is to kill expendable humans (called 'the enemy') but to cause little or no damage to infrastructure, so that when you go in, you have something to go into.

No need for "reconstruction."

btw, i think you think i am making some sort of argument here that i am not making. I was rhapsodizing.

The US military has now admitted the use of White Phosphorous as an antipersonnel weapon in Fallujah. Just thought you'd like to know.

The Ape Man

I was wrong on this. WP was used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants. Post has been updated.

Just one comment on the link from Confederate Yankee. His Captain probably was an FA guy, but doesn't seem to have the technical competence that NCO's have. He gives a long description of a parachute flare with WP. One small problem. Illum rounds us MAGNESIUM. It burn much brighter and has much less smoke. If you want to see an example of how little concern the army shows for the toxicity of WP, take a look at the turret of any US fighting vehicle. There are smoke grenade launchers mounted on them. These grenade pop out about 3-5 meters and burst. The are comprised of WP, RP, and butyl rubber. Do you really think we'd gas ourselves?

thanks for helping to debunk the lefts latest "war crime" cry.

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