tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post7022743573874701760..comments2024-03-27T20:37:08.065+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: Assassination in warfareUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-74932986518272591832010-07-26T15:02:14.869+02:002010-07-26T15:02:14.869+02:00Interesting piece.
Personaly, I'm favour, and ...Interesting piece.<br />Personaly, I'm favour, and done properly, it should work wonders.<br /><br />Its just a more effective way of breaking the enemies communications network than blowing up bridges and telephone exchanges.<br /><br />Iraqs a bad example I think, but if we imagine a NATO army.<br />It has a lot of constituant parts that dont speak across to each other but speak up and down the chain of command.<br />Break a couple of those links and replacements step up and fill the gap seamlessly.<br />Kill everyone Colonel and above and a massed army would 600 majors stumbling along with no idea who to contact to organise combined efforts, and the force would be taken apart piecemeal.<br /><br />The alternative usage in Afghanistan broken the insurgency, but an article recently noted that due to extensive predator strikes the average "Taliban Operations Chief" has a life span of 6 months.<br />One has to wonder how effective they would be if their officer corps had a few years experience.DominicJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-42854492995014207072009-04-24T20:03:00.000+02:002009-04-24T20:03:00.000+02:00@anonymous poster who didn't get his comment publi...@anonymous poster who didn't get his comment published:<br /><br />1) Learn manners.<br /><br />2) Learn logic.<br /><br />3) Tell your name or else refrain from claims about your vita.<br /><br />4) http://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2008/05/comment-policy.htmlS Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-38284974712337775632009-04-24T19:15:00.000+02:002009-04-24T19:15:00.000+02:00I considered blocking your comment for a combinati...I considered blocking your comment for a combination of anonymous posting and offensive language, but I chose to show you your limits in another way.<br /><br />Mohamed Hassan Awale, one of the two targets, gave interviews after the withdrawal of foreign forces years after the Battle of Mogadishu. He's still a relevant foreign politician in one of the Somali factions - one that opposes the U.S.-friendly, Ethiopia-backed faction.<br /><br />Even if they were killed, you would just contradict yourself because capturing bodies wasn't the mission. The targets getting killed would have been a clear-cut tactical failure.<br /><br />I don't use Wikipedia for research (except for very small things like when I cannot recall how to spell a name).<br />The wikipedia links are just for the convenience of those readers who don't recall abbreviations, names, events or items.<br /><br />Just to show how much you pull your comments out of your ass: Wikipedia doesn't even tell about the fate of the targets, no matter whether you implied so or not.S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-20710993488864734612009-04-24T18:43:00.000+02:002009-04-24T18:43:00.000+02:00"The raid for capturing the two guys (one of them ..."The raid for capturing the two guys (one of them is very active as hostile diplomat in modern Somalia) was Pyrrhic victory that effectively prevented the success of the campaign."<br /><br />You have no idea what you are talking about, always a problem when you rely on Wikipedia for your "facts".<br />I can assure you anybody captured in that raid does indeed have an active role in modern Somalia...producing humus. They were all washed out of the back of the trucks, after being hit by the fire and RPGs from their fellow countrymen.<br /><br />You will have to forgive TF Ranger for their mission that day, they don't have the experience and the competence planning military operations that you have.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-44193870288361548892009-04-24T14:43:00.000+02:002009-04-24T14:43:00.000+02:00Remember Chechnya and Dudajev? Please excuse the G...Remember Chechnya and Dudajev? Please excuse the German text - yes, taken from Wikipedia: <br /><br />"Dudajew wurde am 21. April 1996 bei einem gezielten russischen Raketenschlag aus einer Suchoi Su-25 im tschetschenischem Dorf Gechi-Tschu im Rajon Urus-Martan getötet, nachdem es einer Mi-24 gelungen war, sein Satellitentelefonsignal zu orten."Merowingernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-65030164690417460942009-04-24T11:55:00.000+02:002009-04-24T11:55:00.000+02:00Military actions don't happen in a vacuum.
The ra...Military actions don't happen in a vacuum.<br /><br />The raid for capturing the two guys (one of them is very active as hostile diplomat in modern Somalia) was Pyrrhic victory that effectively prevented the success of the campaign.<br />The purpose was to do a step towards a capture of Aidid, but the outcome was a step away from that goal due to political factors.<br /><br />Maybe it was a tactical success.<br />Fact is: It as a disaster on the operational, strategic and political levels of warfare.<br />That weighs heavier.S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-83571007425005378132009-04-24T10:25:00.000+02:002009-04-24T10:25:00.000+02:00Very hilarious name... Iskander is a central Asian...Very hilarious name... Iskander is a central Asian (I cannot be more precise, university years are far away now) name corresponding to our Alexander!Paolo Snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-6426813177033526992009-04-24T05:18:00.000+02:002009-04-24T05:18:00.000+02:00How can you possibly say the "Battle of Mogadishu ...How can you possibly say the "Battle of Mogadishu (1993)" was a failure? The targets of the raid were most certainly removed from any further action or influence. <br /><br />And I don't consider quoting Wikipedia as a source to be an excuse for your ridiculous comment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-24120945018113287602009-04-24T01:12:00.000+02:002009-04-24T01:12:00.000+02:00Maybe.
That wasn't my interest, though.
The aimed...Maybe.<br />That wasn't my interest, though.<br /><br />The aimed attack on leaders was the area of interest, and it's quite certain that this can have extreme effects if said leaders are competent.<br /><br />I always assume competent enemies. The incompetent ones will fail anyway.S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-29704859477155015142009-04-24T00:52:00.000+02:002009-04-24T00:52:00.000+02:00Not buying it. I think it has more to do with the...Not buying it. I think it has more to do with the American penchant for personalizing their disputes than any intelligent strategic analysis. Certainly Saddam's survival did not improve the performance of his army, and his capture had no effect on the insurgency. How many Al-Qaeda "Number Two men" have been assassinated to no avail? <br /><br />These are broad-based political movements, not rock concerts. Killing Bono will stop the U2 concert tour, but assassinating Saddam would have only moved up some other guy, who would have inherited Saddam's state apparatus and put it to different uses, but not very different.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13783904381680777945noreply@blogger.com