# How would the US military fight a jungle canopy guerrilla war today?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 10, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-the-us-military-fight-a-jungle-canopy-guerrilla-war-today/680984 "2014-02-10T17:00:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-the-us-military-fight-a-jungle-canopy-guerrilla-war-today/680984/21 "2014-02-12T02:15:30Z")

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> [@The Great Sun Jester](#):
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> What? the floor is totally flat and free of undergrowth–I’ve seen Tarzan. Ok, maybe a rover that has 20 foot long flexible arms and grabs onto tree trunks…

Yeesh that sounds horrifying. And Boston Dynamics would probably make it!  
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**Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-the-us-military-fight-a-jungle-canopy-guerrilla-war-today/680984/22 "2014-02-12T17:33:33Z")

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I’m thinking they probably _would_ use defoliant to create a large empty space around anything even marginally important. Remember, this is the same administration that regularly blows up people with drone strikes, even though we are not at war with anyone. I’m having a hard time imagining them caring much about the environment in a country that we actually are at war with.

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