anotherlife
Gold Member
Isis can operate so well because it has broad popular support within its geographical area in Syria. This support is probably just 51% of the population, but big enough to keep them going. As a result, they can keep up their guerilla warfare forever.
What weapons can we use to eradicate them, if this was the assignment? Not just stop them but eradicate them. Putting ethics and such aside, this would be a genocideous turf grabbing technique from the point of view of that 51%. But let's forget that aspect for a minute. Would the US have a kind of weapon that could take that 51% of that population out in one quick step, if it was legal? Let's discount nukes.
What weapons would the US have for this? Or what weapons would it need to research and develop? The science of guerilla eradication techniques in high population support may not even be solved yet in the 20th-21st century.
What weapons can we use to eradicate them, if this was the assignment? Not just stop them but eradicate them. Putting ethics and such aside, this would be a genocideous turf grabbing technique from the point of view of that 51%. But let's forget that aspect for a minute. Would the US have a kind of weapon that could take that 51% of that population out in one quick step, if it was legal? Let's discount nukes.
What weapons would the US have for this? Or what weapons would it need to research and develop? The science of guerilla eradication techniques in high population support may not even be solved yet in the 20th-21st century.