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Ilya Starinov – The godfather of modern insurgent IED warfare

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Wow, I had no idea.

This reminds me a bit of some of the American Revolution's more guerrilla tactics- shooting the enemy's generals directly, hiding behind more-or-less impenetrable trees, and the like.

It's unfortunate that now we're on the receiving end of these attacks- home soil advantage is huge- but it feels like there are better ways of dealing with IED's than what we're curgently doing.

That was a really interesting read.

> but it feels like there are better ways of dealing with IED's than what we're curgently doing.

Filtration camps?

> > but it feels like there are better ways of dealing with IED's than what we're curgently doing.

> Filtration camps?

Reading briefly about the filtration camps, I couldn't find anything IED related. Could you elaborate?

I was talking about dealing with insurgency in general, to prevent insurgents from laying IEDs.

What an interesting read as a SVBIED attack survivor.

His role in the Spanish civil war sounds like a model for the protagonist of Hemingway's "For whom the Bell tolls".

“Bizarrely he described how he would rather work making IEDs rather than accompany his colleagues to watch the spectacle of the bullfight ‘where innocent animals were killed’.”

Cognitive dissonance at its finest.

I think the key word there is "innocent".

I agree with you in theory but let's not pretend that ieds don't have high collateral damage and that that's not painfully obvious (so there's still probably cognitive dissonance involved in saying something like that).

But there is still a big difference between also blowing up lots of innocent bystanders because $cause is deemed more important and having bloodshed done for show and paying for the privilege of cheering it on. I find it quite unsurprising if someone who does violence professionally isn't turned on by violence for entertainment.

Maybe, but that doesn't say much. The relationship between soldiers and animals is often complex.

https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2011/09/...

the ferocity of human battles before modern weapons are explicitly re-enacted with a fullness of pain, rage and despair. Solution "no one should do any violence" and "all animals become peaceful" has yet to emerge signed -psuedo-Hemmingway

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