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In wars between industrialized nations, most civilian infrastructure is dual-use. A factory makes widgets for a factory that makes widgets for the army. A highway is used to ship military supplies. A port unloads military supplies. An oil refinery makes gasoline for civilian cars... and diesel for tanks.

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Woah, a case for bombing civilians on Hacker News. How far we’ve come!

I'm not saying how I think wars should be fought. I'm describing how they are fought.

Given that our militaries don't balk at drone striking weddings and funerals, I can't see how they would take much issue with dropping a couple hundred bombs on a refinery, or a rail yard, or a line of tanker trucks. Which are all things that have been done since 1945, and as far as I'm aware, nobody has been dragged off to the ICC for it.

Everyone except for the very jingoistic few balks at drone striking weddings and funerals. Everyone hates that! So maybe that's not the modus operandi to which we should compare OSS strategies.

Maybe everyone in your and my social circles, but that speaks more about our bubbles. Half this country is completely fine with doing it... In a war that we had no reason to even fight!

I imagine the rate of support would be higher if it was a conflict where we weren't the aggressor.

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