I think that people fail to understand fourth generation asymmetric warfare. It is war.
Israel is trying to sell what they are doing as counterinsurgency which is essentially the police activity of getting the bad guys who exist within the body of good, or at least neutral people. Everybody …
I think that people fail to understand fourth generation asymmetric warfare. It is war.
Israel is trying to sell what they are doing as counterinsurgency which is essentially the police activity of getting the bad guys who exist within the body of good, or at least neutral people. Everybody sucks at it. America's failures in warfare have been in wars of counterinsurgency. Vietnam and Afghanistan are examples. Israel knows that they cannot succeed at that. Let's not bullshit ourselves, they are at war, just as Hamas is.
What happens in war? Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius (Kill them. For the Lord knows who are His.). Firebomb or nuke cities where most of the dead will be non-combatants. Kill all the males including infants and rape the women while the men are forced to watch the rapes and the women are forced to watch the murder of their sons, brothers and husbands. Destroy their homes, factories and infrastructure. A most grotesque horror.
What do we see both Israel and Hamas doing? War. The problem with condemning what is going on is that sparing the non-combatants assumes that the objectives of the belligerents is not total war but rather a counterinsurgency police action. Evidence says that that is an incorrect assumption.
Fifth generation warfare pertains to dis/information and perception. The opinions and side taking is a result of that.
"It's not a war on all of the people of Israel or Palestine, just the ones victimizing us.". With a slow Southern drawl, that sounds like a bullshit story to me.
It is powerful and influences the ultimate result. People can participate without doing the killing with their own hands. Bloodthirsty voyeurs claiming righteousness. The privilege of distance and willingness to believe the sweet bullshit that is a balm for or conscience.
Meanwhile Netanyahu is dragging it out as long as he can to delay his legal troubles, but the IDF shooting three of their own citizens waving white flags has the streets full of people demanding his removal.
I'm so sick of reading that Israel's shit doesn't stink. But I'm reading that a lot, lot less lately.
Was that cowardice on the part of those IDF troops and/or evidence of them using an Abbot of Cîteaux operations manual? Do they consider killing a non-IDF Israeli fratricide or just some bug splat like killing non-combatant Palestinians? According to what I read in the WSJ they immediately killed two of the three. The third ran to safety, started yelling in Hebrew, came back out and was killed. What a disgrace!
This kind of nastiness has happened before; in Gaza, even. Now, it's broadcasted. Which is overall a good thing; the winners don't get exclusive rights to the narrative anymore. But it means emotional reactions are running wild. It's one thing to know in the abstract that our fellow humans are willing and able to act this way...and another to see it.
Another well thought out article from you Steve.
I think that people fail to understand fourth generation asymmetric warfare. It is war.
Israel is trying to sell what they are doing as counterinsurgency which is essentially the police activity of getting the bad guys who exist within the body of good, or at least neutral people. Everybody sucks at it. America's failures in warfare have been in wars of counterinsurgency. Vietnam and Afghanistan are examples. Israel knows that they cannot succeed at that. Let's not bullshit ourselves, they are at war, just as Hamas is.
What happens in war? Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius (Kill them. For the Lord knows who are His.). Firebomb or nuke cities where most of the dead will be non-combatants. Kill all the males including infants and rape the women while the men are forced to watch the rapes and the women are forced to watch the murder of their sons, brothers and husbands. Destroy their homes, factories and infrastructure. A most grotesque horror.
What do we see both Israel and Hamas doing? War. The problem with condemning what is going on is that sparing the non-combatants assumes that the objectives of the belligerents is not total war but rather a counterinsurgency police action. Evidence says that that is an incorrect assumption.
Fifth generation warfare pertains to dis/information and perception. The opinions and side taking is a result of that.
"It's not a war on all of the people of Israel or Palestine, just the ones victimizing us.". With a slow Southern drawl, that sounds like a bullshit story to me.
It is powerful and influences the ultimate result. People can participate without doing the killing with their own hands. Bloodthirsty voyeurs claiming righteousness. The privilege of distance and willingness to believe the sweet bullshit that is a balm for or conscience.
Meanwhile Netanyahu is dragging it out as long as he can to delay his legal troubles, but the IDF shooting three of their own citizens waving white flags has the streets full of people demanding his removal.
I'm so sick of reading that Israel's shit doesn't stink. But I'm reading that a lot, lot less lately.
Was that cowardice on the part of those IDF troops and/or evidence of them using an Abbot of Cîteaux operations manual? Do they consider killing a non-IDF Israeli fratricide or just some bug splat like killing non-combatant Palestinians? According to what I read in the WSJ they immediately killed two of the three. The third ran to safety, started yelling in Hebrew, came back out and was killed. What a disgrace!
This kind of nastiness has happened before; in Gaza, even. Now, it's broadcasted. Which is overall a good thing; the winners don't get exclusive rights to the narrative anymore. But it means emotional reactions are running wild. It's one thing to know in the abstract that our fellow humans are willing and able to act this way...and another to see it.