But it was tolerated to the extent that they did not resume active
fighting. They might not have liked it, but they did tolerate it
enough not to engage in significant live-fire military operations
with the goal of eliminating it.
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>
> > places under siege are exceptional
> > in not being tolerated
> > yet are basically archetypical of enclaves also
> >
> > nor do these necessarily result from the division of some larger
> > entity
> >
> > but many enclaves are just the result of military standoffs
>
> You are correct, but I did not say that ALL enclaves result from
the division of
> larger entities, but that most modern ones do.
>
> I suppose that West Berlin was an enclave besieged. It was clearly
not
> tolerated by the surrounding power, but it persisted as a result of
a military
> stand-off. Its ability to persist depended entirely on its
resupply via a
> sovereign airspace corridor that the surrounding power dared not
violate. Some
> might argue that the existence of that corridor made it less than
completely
> enclaved in all three dimensions.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA