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发帖数: 6973 | 1 HDS Greenway, The New War Horse; Pickup trucks have changed Third World
combat. Boston Globe, Apr 5, 2011.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion
/oped/articles/2011/04/05/the_new_war_horse/
Quote:
"Glance at any newspaper, or switch on the nightly news, and you are likely
to see Japanese pickup trucks carrying rebels into, or away from, battle in
Libya or the Ivory Coast, often with a large machine gun in the cargo bed")
"The trucks are the modern equivalent of the light cavalry Muslims used in
the Middle Ages to defeat crusader knights in their heavy armor on huge,
European battle horses.
"In the 1970s, the Sahrawi People’s Liberation Front pioneered the use of
attack pickups in Morocco and Mauritania.
Note:
(a) The article said, "Fast Land Rovers with mounted machine guns made their
mark in the deserts of Libya and Tunisia in World War II, when British long
-range desert patrols would zip behind enemy lines to harass General Erwin
Rommel’s Afrikakorps."
Whatever the British used, it was not
Land Rovers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rovers
(The first Land Rover was designed in 1948 in the United Kingdom (on the
island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales) by Maurice Wilks, chief designer
at the British car company Rover on his farm in Newborough, Anglesey. It is
said that he was inspired by an American World War II Jeep that he used one
summer at his holiday home in Wales)
(b) Sahrawi people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahrawi_people
(usually used in reference to populations from the disputed Western Sahara
territory; section 1 Origin of word and transliterations) | i****a
发帖数: 36252 | 2 they should drive american trucks to show that they love their country
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: HDS Greenway, The New War Horse; Pickup trucks have changed Third World
: combat. Boston Globe, Apr 5, 2011.
: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion
: /oped/articles/2011/04/05/the_new_war_horse/
: Quote:
: "Glance at any newspaper, or switch on the nightly news, and you are likely
: to see Japanese pickup trucks carrying rebels into, or away from, battle in
: Libya or the Ivory Coast, often with a large machine gun in the cargo bed")
: "The trucks are the modern equivalent of the light cavalry Muslims used in
: the Middle Ages to defeat crusader knights in their heavy armor on huge,
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