Must add the following due to enuff time passing for those who know better to revise their comments that ran the gamut from brilliant to remarkable etc etc. Alas, the best they could do is wonder if there is any downside or perhaps consequences.
Those going all gaga over the op including branding it novel are dead wrong. Espionage and sab…
Must add the following due to enuff time passing for those who know better to revise their comments that ran the gamut from brilliant to remarkable etc etc. Alas, the best they could do is wonder if there is any downside or perhaps consequences.
Those going all gaga over the op including branding it novel are dead wrong. Espionage and sabotage have been around before history recorded the first war. So too is mucking with today's term of supply chain. Supply chain is a rather new term for how products go from an idea to a finished product, whether it is food, water, motor vehicles, or tech. What is novel in the op is not to be lauded, mass assassination. Nation states have long had the capability and capacity to pull off mass assassinations yet wisely declined for the very reason you invoked a moral compass. Bibi and his rw government doesn't have one and niithah do those who are satisfied w/espionage and sabotage because inside they thirst for blood. Not a one waving pom-poms mentioned how this op will burn innocent suppliers, assemblers, brokers, manufacturers, importer/exporters who had nothing to do with this atrocity. Then again have yet to hear of or meet anyone in that intel world who shows any concern for burning innocents. Indeed, they see doing so a way of covering their own tracks.
To each and every one who still insists those words apply they affirm the many reasons the US and West remain clueless regarding non-Western cultures and remain enamored with their brutal roots.
Those devices never ever shoulda been made w/the potential of lethality or maiming. It was enuff to permanently disabled them by shorting out their circuitry aka melting the circuit board or boards. Yes, woulda produced enuff heat to result in different degrees of burns but not death or lasting wounds/injuries.
The objective to reach out and touch comes with losing comms, losing faith in leadership, the setting in over paranoia (what's next syndrome), and humiliation. Humiliation is not an incentive to seek revenge. Humiliation paralyzes the mind, body, and spirit. Causes people to look within, rather than outward. Indeed blocks the outside from entering. Humiliation in all sorts of human interaction including war/combat resets the brain. Even the worst or the worst, hate can lessen and be replaced by degrees of respect.
Any person who has been in a physical altercation who has superior skills knows the result they seek is surrender w/o hurting/injuring the person. The surrender need not be verbal or physical, it need only occur in the eyes. The eyes are the quickest path to the brain and back again. And yes they are also a window to the soul.
So, the op was the full definition of too clever by half including overreach. And the overreach in this matter is overkill. Any goal of changing the enemy's behavior went up in smoke, flames, screams, and carnage. Getting into the head of the enemy is critical. However, it must linger longer to have the desired effect of weakening their resolve to fight today, tomorrow, the next day, and the next.
Non-lethal means accomplish that. Lethal action restores resolve quicker than chit because it requires no thought, simply a reaction.
Must add the following due to enuff time passing for those who know better to revise their comments that ran the gamut from brilliant to remarkable etc etc. Alas, the best they could do is wonder if there is any downside or perhaps consequences.
Those going all gaga over the op including branding it novel are dead wrong. Espionage and sabotage have been around before history recorded the first war. So too is mucking with today's term of supply chain. Supply chain is a rather new term for how products go from an idea to a finished product, whether it is food, water, motor vehicles, or tech. What is novel in the op is not to be lauded, mass assassination. Nation states have long had the capability and capacity to pull off mass assassinations yet wisely declined for the very reason you invoked a moral compass. Bibi and his rw government doesn't have one and niithah do those who are satisfied w/espionage and sabotage because inside they thirst for blood. Not a one waving pom-poms mentioned how this op will burn innocent suppliers, assemblers, brokers, manufacturers, importer/exporters who had nothing to do with this atrocity. Then again have yet to hear of or meet anyone in that intel world who shows any concern for burning innocents. Indeed, they see doing so a way of covering their own tracks.
To each and every one who still insists those words apply they affirm the many reasons the US and West remain clueless regarding non-Western cultures and remain enamored with their brutal roots.
Those devices never ever shoulda been made w/the potential of lethality or maiming. It was enuff to permanently disabled them by shorting out their circuitry aka melting the circuit board or boards. Yes, woulda produced enuff heat to result in different degrees of burns but not death or lasting wounds/injuries.
The objective to reach out and touch comes with losing comms, losing faith in leadership, the setting in over paranoia (what's next syndrome), and humiliation. Humiliation is not an incentive to seek revenge. Humiliation paralyzes the mind, body, and spirit. Causes people to look within, rather than outward. Indeed blocks the outside from entering. Humiliation in all sorts of human interaction including war/combat resets the brain. Even the worst or the worst, hate can lessen and be replaced by degrees of respect.
Any person who has been in a physical altercation who has superior skills knows the result they seek is surrender w/o hurting/injuring the person. The surrender need not be verbal or physical, it need only occur in the eyes. The eyes are the quickest path to the brain and back again. And yes they are also a window to the soul.
So, the op was the full definition of too clever by half including overreach. And the overreach in this matter is overkill. Any goal of changing the enemy's behavior went up in smoke, flames, screams, and carnage. Getting into the head of the enemy is critical. However, it must linger longer to have the desired effect of weakening their resolve to fight today, tomorrow, the next day, and the next.
Non-lethal means accomplish that. Lethal action restores resolve quicker than chit because it requires no thought, simply a reaction.