From:	Paul J. Adam Paul@********.demon.co.uk
Subject:	the value of education
Date:	Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:04:20 +0100

In article <3.0.3.32.19990712133924.008da530@***.softhome.net>,
IronRaven <cyberraven@********.net> writes
>At 12.46 07-12-99 -0400, you wrote:
>> Go ahead and dismiss CAS why don't you. Yet again proving the
>
> I don't, and I am looking at a picture of one my ancestors and his buddies
>standing in Atlanta. <g'ing & ducking>
>
> I generally treat the CAS as one of the best hopes of North America
>becoming a world player again, complete with carrier groups and "overseas"
>expeditionary forces

UCAS definitely has them - one major carrier in the Pacific, plus a class of
LHAs or LPDs, given in the source material. I'd think CAS had more of a
coastal force, heavy on fire support and trade protection and amphibious
forces; light on air power and area AAW because the fighting's going to be
within range of shore.

>(including, if I ever run anything in that area of
>time-space, some forces providing support for Bug City, along with Ares and
>NAN troops). Personally, I think a book on the CAS would sell as well, if
>not better than, Target: UCAS, simply because there is higher reading on
>the "wierd-sh**o-meter" is some parts of the south.

I'd figure CAS would have less blue-water naval muscle than UCAS, but be
notably stronger in land and air forces - after all, they've got a hostile
border with Aztlan and a _lot_ of Confederates would want their land
back...

>(the only Yankee to admit to actually like grits)

Are grits anything like polenta?

--
Paul J. Adam