ISIS seems to be largely a LARP (cf http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5298d716-758a-11e4-a1a9-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk …). What does this imply for the future of warfare?
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@Meaningness But that's also a gigantic limitation: they can't ever come within a thousand miles of winning, can only wreck at the margin. -
@St_Rev right, but if the West spends trillions fighting them, and millions are dying, experiments in non-kinetic methods seem advisable -
@Meaningness Blowing things up is easy, and keeps the game going. Solving the problem doesn't have the same constituency.
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@St_Rev@Meaningness "So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those bastards won't get away this time!" -
@drethelin@Meaningness Right, but: tactics where you lose 30 fighters for every 1 of theirs only works if theirs are worth 31 of yours. -
@drethelin@Meaningness So it's an admission of permanent defeat disguised as a battle cry. You're not the plague, you're just herpes.
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