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Originally Posted by Skybird
I did not say nor imply that one should do nothing.
What I said is that the West should stop giving that scum a media stage on which to perform its shock-and-awe campaign. Not reporting about their stories that are meant to shock and stun the Western public. And silently hunt them down man by man, vehicle by vehicle, with air power. No prisoners, nor forgiving. Search, find, kill - hunt them and keep them running until they die by heart attack.
Drones will start to become a blessing, ironically not in wars against supertech enemy states, but in "asymmetrical wars" because their endurance outlasts that of the human body. Imagine to have a constant force of 30, 40, 50 drones over the heads of IS contingents in Iraq 24/7 that could strike just any second. Every drone out of ammo immediately replaced with a fresh one.
That is what I would call "terror".
It would also help to prevent Western "nationals" with migration background re-entering Western countries and having IS indoctrination and war experience in their backpacks. We shall have no interest to let these murderous fanatics back into our home countries. It was murderous hate for our nations that made them leaving their hosting nations and join IS. So let IS keep them forever in both life and death.
Do I say something nasty again? No - I just state the obvious.
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I didn't say that you did.
I said that doing nothing militarily was not an option, not doing nothing via the media.
Fully agree on the drones, the only problem there is, really, is getting proper target ID, too many weddings have had the bride and groom receive a Hellfire as a wedding present from the USAF, but unfortunately you get these problems with many new forms of weaponry, if they're not killing the wrong people on the ground then they're killing their operators, or a mixture of both.
As optic technology gets better then intel will hopefully improve, of course a little restraint before engaging sometimes helps too.
Not just a definition of terror but an effective ground vehicle denial method, one only has to look at the Falaise pocket to realise just how devastating total aerial dominance can be to the ground battle. Infantry on the other hand are a bit harder because they can hide better, but even so eventually, one of them will end up in the IR sights of a drone and then it's goodnight Irene.
Also agree on barring the return of western nationals, however that one is a lot less likely to happen, especially in Europe, we have the benefit of having a body of water between us and Iraq, and even then we still get dozens of illegal immigrants come through a month (if not more) so having a hard defined border beyond lines on a map is not particularly easy, unfortunately they will get through, we can make it harder but we cannot stop it.