Talk:Mining (military)

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I worry about the phrasing of undermining in the WWI conflict in the dolomites, which gives the impression that the marmolata and other peaks were blown up. Last time I checked, they were still there.

The conflict there resulted in the Via Ferrata, which were the tunnels to move troops around. I always believed that the primary attack was triggering avalaunches with artillery, not tunneling under the mountains. Which, believe me, would take a lot of energy to move.

We need more research here.

I fear that this page confounds two issues. A sap is a trench or a protected roadway that appoaches a fortification. A mine is the tunnel dug under a wall or tower to collapse it. A mine could logically be dug from a sap, but a sap could also be used to approach the fortification for a conventional attack. Hence the old name for the Royal Enigneers, Royal Sappers and Miners, two distinct jobs.

This article seems to be about mining, and not sapping.

[edit] MIW

Is there any reason the three letter acronym MIW redirects to this article? I can't see any explanation within the article. There is an article on Major Impact Wrestling for which I'd like to make MIW either a redirect or a disambiguation page, but I'm not clear on why it is currently pointing to this article. - Conniption 15:07, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Looking through the history of the MIW redirect I see that it originally pointed to Mine Warfare which in turn points to Sapping. I cannot guess what the I stands for. Nothing of any significance links to MIW so I would suggest it should point to Major Impact Wrestling instead. Gaius Cornelius 15:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

The term "sapper" was/is also widely used for explosives crews (in mining, construction etc.) It would be nice to see this reflected in the article.

I am also curious about the etymology of the term "poor sap". --206.248.149.78 01:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)