tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post8553957847661165082..comments2024-03-16T11:54:44.590+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: Elegance in warfareUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-41913568412621748852011-03-29T11:25:46.493+02:002011-03-29T11:25:46.493+02:00"Do you order to bomb both?
That would certai..."Do you order to bomb both?<br />That would certainly make no sense. You should omit the bombing of the truck factory and just bomb the oil refinery."<br />Considering the length of the second world war, the truck factory could be repurposed as a machine gun factory or an artilery factory or anything else.<br /><br />I'm not quite sure I agree with your hoarding of resources concept though, I'd probably bomb the refinery twice.<br /><br />In a larger scenario, if your opponant has two truck factories and two refinaries, it makes no sense to bomb one of each.<br /><br />My view is that a single link should be picked and devestated at the expensive of virtualy anything else.<br />Wiping out the electricity grid would cripple a country far more thouroughly than kncoking out 10% of electricity, gas, transport, communications and so forth<br /><br />I kind of get your point, but I dont think its as bad as you make out.<br />The bombing of Libya probably wouldnt qualify as elegant, but its hardly been excessive or wasteful either.<br /><br />"Next, I'd like to point at the "accidental guerrilla" concept. This basically says that if you kill one wrong man, dozens of neutrals could become your new and additional enemies. You might end up in a Hydra fight without a firebrand."<br /><br />I place no faith in that concept.<br />If it had any validity, the Afghans would have risen up against the Taliban and driven them out long ago.<br /><br />The reverse is more likely to be true, the Afghan populace is content to stand by as the engineering unit that just built them an irrigation system blunders into a minefield, because the Taliban will slaughter them if they get involved.<br /><br />Punishment attacks against villages are just as likely to create cowed populaces who control their sons as they are a new wave of fighters.<br /><br />If we nerve gas the home village of every identified enemy, would we create lots of jihadis out for a fight, or lots of tribal chiefs extremely interested in controlling their wayward youths?<br /><br />If you can answer that, you should have used your crystal ball on fridays Euromillions....<br /><br />"Think of Japanese soldiers sitting on irrelevant islands in the Pacific in 1944. "<br />Thats rather reliant on us knowing they are irrelevent islands to the Japanese war effort and them being irrelevent to our war effort.<br />Now, I havent studied every island attack in detail, but my understanding was that most had an airstrip at the very least.<br />An airstrip and a wing of torpedo bombers sat on your shipping route is a dangerous thing.<br /><br />We know there were no torpedo bombers of course, nor where there submarine resupply bases or anything of value. But as far as I'm aware, this wasnt always clear.<br /><br />There is also a psycological effect.<br />Would we really want to colonels sat around convincing themselves that if the Polynesian Fortress Islands can hold out under siege and behind enemy lines for a year, the Home Islands can resist the nuclear bombings.Domohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00240964731398145995noreply@blogger.com