The Pentagon has never made public the assumptions or techniques used in its models, citing the use of classified data. It is unknown if these models and their results were subjected to a peer review or competitive analysis. One report, citing Pentagon officials involved, has said that the computer war games were seriously flawed. 13 President Clinton also cited the need for mixed mine systems as a key reason for not signing the treaty, noting that the antipersonnel mines are designed to protect the antitank mines from tampering or removal by enemy forces. 14 One line of argument holds that antipersonnel mines delay an enemy force by twenty minutes from breaching a minefield containing both antipersonnel and antitank mines, thus allowing extra air strikes on the enemy.
Antipersonnel mines have little to no utility against forces mounted in armored vehicles.
This is a fallacy. Others have argued that landmines have little to no utility in the war fighting principles currently being developed and adopted by the U.S. military for the 21 st century. 18 Following is a summary of U.S. actions regarding landmine policy in 1999 and 2000 in a number of different fora. No free-standing legislation on landmine policy has been introduced since 1997. It also called for two independent scientific studies on alternatives.