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They could ask questions perhaps if you had overwhelming superiority, such as when fighting an insurgency. In an actual modern war scenario however they'd have
by ENGNR 13y ago
They could ask questions perhaps if you had overwhelming superiority, such as when fighting an insurgency.
In an actual modern war scenario however they'd have to use every sneaky trick in the book or would eventually lose the war via attrition. Firing high explosive shells into buildings to kill the sniper at the top and all that.
- andrewfong 13y agoIsn't insurgency an "actual modern war scenario"? It also tends to be the scenario where civilian casualties has the biggest propaganda impact. For a long time, the Pentagon lumped counter-insurgency under the term "operations other than war". That bugs me. Counter-insurgency is war! We spend a lot of time optimizing for potential near-peer conflicts with countries like China and Russia. Maybe it's prudent. But counter-insurgency has become, for better or worse, a big part of what we do. We should not be so bad at it.