Reply #30: You forgot the main targets, Highways

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Route Denial Munitions (Another name for cluster bombs) were designed and are used for primary one purpose, to deny the use of some piece of land (Generally a road, but could be a path). AS such mines and other Route Denial Munitions work quite fine, people see the clusters bombs and stay away from them. It is easy to walk around the Cluster bombs (Most are quite bright, so to be seen, the intention is NOT to blow something up, but for people NOT to use that land to go somewhere else). Thus the main targets are Trucks, wagons (including ox and horse drawn carts) and other means of moving troops or supplies rapidly.

A side affect of this is that often the side dropping the Cluster bombs MUST also decide it can NOT use that route. Thus in most fighting, such weapons are avoided, to permit one's own troops to use the same ground. On the other hand, if the side dropping the cluster bombs NEVER intend to go into that area, the cluster bombs can stay there for decades (or until someone blows then up). This leads to high civilian deaths do to cluster bombs and such high death rates have lead to their ban by most Nations.