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  • stewsters@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlFull power (:
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    1 year ago

    I think you are overestimating the value of special forces. We kind of mythologize them with our media, but they are not action heroes. You arnt going to send them into a hostile city where Hamas is not in uniform, planned for the retaliation, had time to prepare, and expect them to come out with low casualties.

    For example of what this looks like with the US, refer to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)

    Even the US after 9-11 didn’t just send in spec ops after Osama, they went in whole hog. And that was estimated at about 4.5 million casualties all around.

    It sucks, but Hamas isn’t going to start wearing uniforms and abiding by the Geneva convention any time soon.


  • And then you would either need to wait for your satellite to get over the target, or add a lot more weight to maneuver it to the target.

    If you add wings for precision you are adding drag and heat, both sapping from your destructive power.

    If your weapons satellites all start maneuvering to cross your opponents’ cities then they probably would have a bit of a warning that you are planning something, and likely just shoot them down at a much cheaper cost. Anti satellite missiles have been shown to work, and it would be easy to overheat a satellite with lasers.

    You also have to contend with them just nuking you in response. If Moscow were to be destroyed in a single blast they would not wait to determine if it was nukes or something else, they would fire.