Well, you can argue the morals and efficiency forever, but it happened in most wars. The book for RUN SILENT RUN DEEP had the captain sending the crew below so he could be alone while ramming lifeboats to make sure Bungo Pete was dead and had no chance to get back home and return with another destroyer. Early days in Vietnam there was an account of a heavy bomber chasing a guy on a motorcycle, dropping strings of 500 pound bombs to try to kill one soldier. Morality aside, to my way of thinking the risk/reward ratio and the efficiency are too poor to even bother with it. Modern day equivalent is targeting single terrorists with million dollar tomahawk missiles, not enough bang for the buck.
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