Originally Posted by
Training Risky
hmmm. It is only the presence of 2 million mines in the DMZ keeping NK out of SK. So mines do have a use in the modern world.
As for the FI. We should have kept them in place as a deterrent against a future Argentine invasion whose lack of record keeping may have made them think twice!
Record keeping wouldn't have made a tangible difference for many of the minefields.
Peat moves. A lot. There's no guarantee a mine placed would be in the same place in 6 months, never mind 40 years. This is exactly why they put them there.