My post was partially a poke at subjective meaning, but if pressed to defend my point, I would say politics is logistics, because logistics is about managing re

My post was partially a poke at subjective meaning, but if pressed to defend my point, I would say politics is logistics, because logistics is about managing resources, and everything is about managing resources. Napalm to me seems a natural consequence of jungle warfare, and is a fine solution to a hard logistical problem: How do you fight a battalion of local riflemen in the jungle with a company of guys that only ever saw a jungle on television? Incinerate the jungle or spray toxic chemicals on it, killing the jungle and whatever it contains. This is for example why gas was a natural consequence of trench warfare (cf. the ancient gas attack in the Persian siege of Roman-held Dura [0]). However I concede that this and many of the other posts here are essentially a bit of wordplay. That being said, I am very interested in this topic of discussion which you've brought up, because war is a spectre of human nature which is not palatable to anyone. So even if your fight is a good one, it's going to look bad on TV, which is exactly the thing that gets weaponized by your political opponents in furtherance of their own goals. [0] https://archive.archaeology.org/1001/topten/syria.html https://archive.archaeology.org/1001/topten/syria.html