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Venezuela prepares military to repel invasion
President Chavez aims to ready reservists to wage 'asymmetric war'
Reuters
Updated: 10:53 a.m. ET March 5, 2006
MACARAO, Venezuela - At a rural military base on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuelan officers have started classes in unconventional warfare to repel an invasion left-wing President Hugo Chavez warns Washington may attempt.
Snipers draped in foliage and civilian reservists armed with knives, catapults and handguns crawled out of a hidden tunnel in a demonstration as instructors lectured on resistance tactics.
Captains, lieutenants and majors strained behind a cordon to make out another soldier camouflaged inside tree perch as he fired a bow and peppered a uniformed dummy target with arrows.
"If no one comes, then that's fine, we can continue as the free and sovereign country we are, but we cannot permit that any foreign force tries to invade," instructor Lt. Col. Antonio Benavides said as gunfire cracked from a firing range during the weekend training.
"All Venezuelans, the state and civil society, have a joint responsibility to defend the nation," he said.
Locked in a fierce confrontation with the U.S. government, Chavez is building up civilian reservists and has ordered the armed forces to adopt a doctrine emphasizing "asymmetric war" or resistance war against a more powerful foreign force.
An initial batch of 500,000 civilian reservists and territorial guard volunteers will start four-month basic training at weekends, said retired Col. Hector Herrera, a reservist advisor.
Washington dismisses Chavez's charges that it plans to oust him to control the world's No. 5 oil exporter and brushes off his invasion talk as saber-rattling to stir up nationalism and mobilize supporters before elections in December.
But tensions are high as U.S. officials portray Chavez, a self-styled socialist revolutionary allied with Cuba, as a negative influence in Latin America. Washington has opposed Venezuela's recent arms purchases and the reservist drive.
The United States and Venezuela last month expelled diplomats after Chavez accused a U.S. naval attache of spying and the former soldier has stepped up threats to cut off U.S. oil shipments.
Reservists getting ready
At the special forces military base in Macarao National Park, officers listened to a lecture on camouflage, surprise attacks and utilizing reservists to strike at invading troops as part of their regular training.
Instructors drew comparisons to Vietcong guerrilla attacks on U.S troops, including the use of secret tunnels, poisons and home-made weapons.
Venezuelan officers have also been sent to Havana to learn civilian-military cooperation from the Cubans, said National Guard Gen. Juan Alberto Hernandez.
An ex paratrooper first elected in 1998, Chavez has steadily cut U.S. military ties as he strengthens relations with Russia, Iran and Cuba. Last year he suspended U.S. anti-drug cooperation, having already ended most U.S. training programs.
In April he drilled more than 20,000 civilian reservists he said were key to defending his "Bolivarian" revolution, named after South American liberation hero Simon Bolivar, and to helping with his social programs for the poor.
"We will count on you for the battles to come to guarantee the Bolivarian revolution and the nation's sovereignty," Chavez said wearing the red beret of his old regiment.
Critics worry about the reservists may be used to crackdown on foes of a president they say has become more authoritarian in a drive to copy Cuban communism.
After training, reservists, who get a stipend of around $8 for each training session, could be armed with old FAL rifles currently used by the armed forces after regular troops get 100,000 new Russian Kalashnikov rifles, officials said.
"They will guarantee resistance against an invading force in their areas. They'll be trained in weapons and other home-made artifacts," said instructor Benavides. "They can be confused with the local populace and that is part of asymmetric war."
Fine. Little do they know that we're just building armies around them as a decoy and are actually targeting Siam and Kamchatka for our major offensives.
:-D catapults :-D this guy is classic !
I like the guy in the bushes with the bow and arrows.
Chavez' next division will be armed with these:
(http://bbeegle.home.att.net/slingshot.jpg)
Will they let Ugie Urbina out of jail and give him a machete to fight? Will Bobby A and Tomas leave to join the revolution?
I don't know about Boby A, but Dio might take up arms with his buddy ;D
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42/phillymic/retard.jpg)
viva revolution!!
Invading Venezuela would be a lot more fun than invading Iraq. The've got better women, better food, better night life and better beaches.
This is a war I can get into.
Quote from: Sgt PSN on March 06, 2006, 10:29:41 PM
Invading Venezuela would be a lot more fun than invading Iraq. The've got better women, better food, better night life and better beaches.
This is a war I can get into.
And the oil is closer, so it won't cost as much to ship here. :D
Viva Chavez!!
The least you could do is pick a nut job leader with some weapons other then slingshots, like Kim jong song, or the Iranian nightmare, or go crazy and support bush.
Quote from: rjs246 on March 06, 2006, 09:46:30 PM
Fine. Little do they know that we're just building armies around them as a decoy and are actually targeting Siam and Kamchatka for our major offensives.
I'm holding out for those purple countries.
Thank god one of you nerds got that...
Only cool people know the value of Australia.
you can't get to kamchatka from venezuela you crazy bitch.
Decoys dude. I've been quietly building up in Alaska.
Sorry, I've been playing too much RISK-LotR to remember what the original board looks like.
HA! Love that game
nerd patrol
QuoteSorry, I've been playing too much RISK-LotR to remember what the original board looks like.
I have that shtein too. Nerds.
Some of you have reached a new level of geekdom that has previously been undiscovered. There's nothing left for you all to do now but kill yourselves. A lot.
I'm not sure why it ever surprises anyone that some people they 'know' on a message board are actually geeks. And supergeeks at that. I mean, I picture every single one of you as the biggest loser on Earth, each of you occupying more room in your mother's basement than the last.
I picture all of you as your avatars. Risk is lame.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 07, 2006, 07:58:12 PM
I picture all of you as your avatars. Risk is lame.
Poor Sarge.
My avatar still makes me laugh. I like to think that you all picture him when you try to envision me. Good times.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 07, 2006, 07:58:12 PM
I picture all of you as your avatars.
In that case, I'd like to officially ask PhillyPhaninDC to marry me.
I'd also like to point out that DC's avatar at the time of this post is this: (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y133/Bobberton/Rio1.gif)
Quote from: NGM on March 07, 2006, 08:01:08 PM
Quote from: Diomedes on March 07, 2006, 07:58:12 PM
I picture all of you as your avatars. Risk is lame.
Poor Sarge.
You're one to talk. You're a farging hockey puck with a tail.
Sorry Sarge, if I actually had boobs like the chick in my avatar, I would be WAY to busy fondling myself to have any time for marriage.
Moving soft porn avatars don't count. I imagine you're some kind of stupid bastich for going to the trouble of finding one of those things and hanging it next to your words. But whatever. I'm the icehole with the cartoon. We all suck.
Yay!
Hi guys!
Quote from: Sgt PSN on March 07, 2006, 07:52:12 PM
Some of you have reached a new level of geekdom that has previously been undiscovered. There's nothing left for you all to do now but kill yourselves. A lot.
Let me preface this story by saying that twenty miles from the border with North Korea, there is absolutely nothing to do.
I was in Korea on a six month exercise and we played risk non-stop for eleven days one time having a tournament. It was about -20 outside, and the only other thing we had to do besides play
Risk was drink piss warm Old Milwaukee from the "Beer Garden". That was one of the best things about being on a deployment in the Marines is there is always way to much booze laying about. So anyway, it's about 3:00am and we are locked in a pretty good series of games in a little hut about 20'x10', and there are some guys passed out, and some guys lazing around smoking, etc., when the corpsman (medic) starts making some garbled noises in his sleep. We all stop and turn to look at the dude. He sits bolt upright in his cot, and starts talking about having to piss, but he is completely asleep. So we start talking to him, telling him to go outside, etc.. He stands up in his drawers and walks across the little walkway, drops his shorts, and proceeds to piss all over our Leitenant's face/cot/equipment. He pulls his pants up and walks back to his cot and goes to sleep. The LT never woke up, and we never said anything.
Moral of the story: Risk isn't for nerds. I guess.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 07, 2006, 08:36:39 PM
Moving soft porn avatars don't count. I imagine you're some kind of stupid bastich for going to the trouble of finding one of those things and hanging it next to your words. But whatever. I'm the icehole with the cartoon. We all suck.
farg. I thought I may have been able to get some sleep tonight.....
Quote from: PhillyPhaninDC on March 07, 2006, 08:43:51 PM
Moral of the story: Risk isn't for nerds. I guess.
Moral of the story: Shut up and let me stare at your tits, bitch!
Quote from: PhillyPhaninDC on March 07, 2006, 08:43:51 PMLet me preface this story by saying that twenty miles from the border with North Korea, there is absolutely nothing to do.
This made me laugh.