Also, not to sound overly strategic, but even from the bluntest, most militaristic viewpoint, the only way to combat a guerilla force that is embedded into the material fabric of a society is to have the society itself reject the guerillas. It can't be done with tanks or airplanes or even ground forces. It has to be done with aid and soft power, and bribes, and blackmail, and double agents and informants and propaganda and the absolute minimum of force. ("A minimum of force is obviously a pretty flexible phrase in this context.") But "Hearts and Minds," as they said in Vietnam. Obviously Netanyahu did not get that memo.
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Also, not to sound overly strategic, but even from the bluntest, most militaristic viewpoint, the only way to combat a guerilla force that is embedded into the material fabric of a society is to have the society itself reject the guerillas. It can't be done with tanks or airplanes or even ground forces. It has to be done with aid and soft power, and bribes, and blackmail, and double agents and informants and propaganda and the absolute minimum of force. ("A minimum of force is obviously a pretty flexible phrase in this context.") But "Hearts and Minds," as they said in Vietnam. Obviously Netanyahu did not get that memo.
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20,000 Dead in Gaza – Baerwald on December 22nd, 2023-
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Re: 20,000 Dead in Gaza – Baerwald on December 22nd, 2023
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Re: 20,000 Dead in Gaza – mick on December 22nd, 2023
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