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Old 6th Dec 2011, 17:54
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You really have no idea do you? Not "friendly" territory, but an area/airspace/battlespace over which you have nominal control ie: the ability to go and get the pieces or drop a guided munition on the remnants. In the past both have been employed on the same hva, for damn good reasons.
When ones toy crosses another country's borders, and you are not really sure whereabouts it ended up, things get really complicated. Especially when that country doesn't like you very much and the international repercussions/ramifications of going to find it/get it/destroy it are enormous. Remember, the days of going in guns blazing are long gone.

I am going to hibernate now. Y'all have fun, you hear.
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