Cluster bombs were used for a situation such as an
attack on a unit of 500 marines, on hilltop firebase in Vietnam,
by 5,000 Viet Cong. They are short range, and a last ditch defensive
measure.
Their purpose in Lebanon will be to
decimate these small villages on the southern border. Israel
will use the phosphorus, anti personnel, and land mine versions. Israel
followed a sequence, first they used howitzers to destroy buildings,
next the demolition teams came in, then the Chechnya snipers, the D-9
bulldozers, and finally these cluster rockets leaving 1000's of mines.
