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**Saduyre9de** · 08-08-2010, 03:01 PM

And this accomplishes what, exactly? The idea of guerilla warfare is that you pick away at the enemy's forces until you can fight them openly. Attacks on civilians don't accomplish much.

By expending an inordinate proportion of your resources guarding essential facilities - and this unit would have been considered essential from the psyac point of view - that it becomes difficult to operate conventionally. Attacks against civilians most certainly help, they get increasingly pissed off and eventually will go with the side who threatens the most - cutting off lips, brutalisation you name it - merely to stop the harassment. Whoever wields the bigger stick wins. It is not possible to guard every civilian. The terrorist is lightly armed, moves rapidly, is indistinguishable from the civilian, knows the territory. You must start thinking like a 3rd world peasant - not a sophisticated 1st world technocrat.

I originally thought the USA would pull this one off with their spy planes, drones, satellites plus the incredible technology they have. Intelligence is the key in terror warfare and clearly we are not getting it from the indiginous population

08-08-2010, 03:01 PM	#30
Saduyre9de Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 493 Senior Member	And this accomplishes what, exactly? The idea of guerilla warfare is that you pick away at the enemy's forces until you can fight them openly. Attacks on civilians don't accomplish much. By expending an inordinate proportion of your resources guarding essential facilities - and this unit would have been considered essential from the psyac point of view - that it becomes difficult to operate conventionally. Attacks against civilians most certainly help, they get increasingly pissed off and eventually will go with the side who threatens the most - cutting off lips, brutalisation you name it - merely to stop the harassment. Whoever wields the bigger stick wins. It is not possible to guard every civilian. The terrorist is lightly armed, moves rapidly, is indistinguishable from the civilian, knows the territory. You must start thinking like a 3rd world peasant - not a sophisticated 1st world technocrat. I originally thought the USA would pull this one off with their spy planes, drones, satellites plus the incredible technology they have. Intelligence is the key in terror warfare and clearly we are not getting it from the indiginous population
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