The First Persian Gulf War (1990) was something of a video game. We saw it through the sights of the machines that were crushing the Iraqi columns at long range – and the victory was so quick and so cheap that the technology seemed to make the war one-sided. It seemed that the technological superiority would make the war a joke for the West.
It’s been many years since I read a sci-fi story during socialism, the name of which unfortunately I can’t remember – and if any of you can tell me, I’ll be glad. It’s about a commando in a future war somewhere in central Africa that travels through the savanna trying to find the enemy. The bottom line is that he won’t find any enemies, as the entire commando takes out the advanced automatic and biological weapons that lie in wait for them – and they are terrible.
One of them is described by the author as a “rot mine” – it is a biological weapon that is designed against living targets – and when it hits them, it causes extremely rapid tissue decomposition. There he describes a lion who accidentally stepped on it – and while one half of it is already falling apart, the other is still alive and roaring in terror.
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I have forgotten the name of that story in thirty-five years, but this image still haunts me in my head.
Yeah. War will not be fun. It just won’t be fun.
2023-12-23 07:05:15
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