Message from @Bookworm
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but hey, if you use THIS
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/The_Arecibo_Observatory_20151101114231-0_8e7cc_c7a44aca_orig.jpg
with a diameter of 300 meters, and a dBi of 80, you only need 100 KW to make the dashboard flicker on that car 500 meters away!
But the dream of knocking out all the lights in an enemy city is as old as wars against cities.
but knocking out lights doesnt need an emp
how many people have a backup generator in their house
let some fireteam capture the nearest powerplants and turn of power
still it hypothetical and it doesnt take out everything as building zones will probably have lights but it can definitly disrupt the city
There were stories of mythic figures begging the god to snuff all the lamps and fires in the enemy city so they may take the city in darkness and the people would wake to them having taken over. It was a pipe dream that we are all ways looking for a better way of doing.
i would say its rather humane dont you think? next to no fighting plus you wake up and the combat is already over
only difference is that we have become those gods
Well there wouldn't have been fighting, just murders.
probably less death overall
I would prefer a thousand casualties of honorable warfare than a single murder.
well good luck finding a thousand people who agree with you
but if they dont you can always kill them in honorable combat
I was about to say. War is never honorable when you get down to the gritty man-to-man
honourable combat does not exist anymore
and never really has
just people trying to survive by any means necessary
war is messy and doesnt have any winners
A soldier has an expectation that his life is at risk on the battlefield.
there is no honor in war or killing someone
I respectfully disagree.
"Veteran: One who signed a blank check to his country for his limb, life and soul but survived."
there is honor in besting someone physically like there is honor in besting someone mentally
but war isnt fair
and it will never be
those gooks that are currently getting bombed the shit out of them?
Yes, anyone who says war is fair is a fool.
nothing honourable about that
If you have 100 thousand men to their 10 thousand, you don't have 90 percent of your forces sit at home to keep things 'fair'.
it would be the honorable thing to do so but it doesnt happen
Says who?
You? Why?
sounds like pretty much the definition of honor to me
when you enter in a war your point is to win right?
doing X with fairness
and to win the war will you leave 90% of your army? no you wont because winning and surviving is more important than honor
Not if your goal is be honorable in the win. Though that rarely is the goal.
So, you do not recognize honorable conduct or rules of war in warfare?