As a military officer, it was my duty to fight wars. I would not want to fight this one.
Urban warfare is the ugliest kind of warfare. Neither side is truly going to win this one. The losses will go beyond territory held, military equipment and body count.
There will be much “collateral damage” which is a very sanitized version of saying “ordinary people who have the misfortune of not being able to get out of the way of the fighting.”
One side will ultimately claim victory, but victory is not peace.
Maybe Robert E. Lee had it right, “It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow fond of it.” The fighting will stop when one or both sides gets tired of fighting. Is the conflict really over, or is it in recess?
As a military officer, it was my duty to fight wars. I would not want to fight this one.
Urban warfare is the ugliest kind of warfare. Neither side is truly going to win this one. The losses will go beyond territory held, military equipment and body count.
There will be much “collateral damage” which is a very sanitized version of saying “ordinary people who have the misfortune of not being able to get out of the way of the fighting.”
One side will ultimately claim victory, but victory is not peace.
Maybe Robert E. Lee had it right, “It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow fond of it.” The fighting will stop when one or both sides gets tired of fighting. Is the conflict really over, or is it in recess?