War, as practiced by the Nations, mostly under Geneva Conventions, is the least bloody.
WWII, the safe place to be was in uniform, as most of the dying was done by common civilians.
Even under classic rules, Uniforms, Fronts, Armies, Civil Wars are the most bloody.
Rebellions against governments really get the blood flowing. Governments are not sure who to kill, so most everyone will do.
Religious Wars do not have an end goal, except genocide.
Terrorist are at war with everyone, including each other.
Sryia started with calling for demostrations, then shooting a few people and blaming the government, then shooting the police and blaming the people.
Both sides will react, but not toward the single sniper who started it all. It is a classic "Let's you and him fight."
Sryia has posted long lists of fighters found, mostly dead, with passports from somewhere else, and not even a tourist visa. They could not belong to any domestic faction.
Under traditional rules such people were shot, no trial needed, and torture before killing to extract information is accepted. Also, any local found together with the "Free Killer". Their status is somewhere around playing host to a known serial killer.
When there is some doubt about who let their town be used to kill captured troops, and eat their body parts, and stayed after most had left and reported the condition, killing everyone is a reasonable goal when retaking the town.
Reduce it to rubble, kill the survivors. The Americans did it to Fallugah, Takreit, seats of Saddam's power in Iraq. Urban warfare is building by building, and anyone in those buildings.
Combine Urban Warfare, Religion, Ethnic Cleansing, Cannibals, posting videos of killing captured people and eating their body parts, rubble followed by smaller rubble, then Napalm, then load the rubble in trucks and leave clear ground.
It is the only response to a Night Of The Living Dead attack. Zombies have no rights. It is also the only way to give justice to the families of troops killed after capture, neighbors killed for being the wrong religion, or not supporting the free killers.
When McArthur took Manila, he killed half the population, all of the Japanese enlisted, and captured 5,000 officers, which he mass tried the next day, and hung the following day. The surviving people of Manila cheered him. That was a war between the Uniformed Armies of Nations.
On islands defended by over 100,000 Japanese, none survived.
The invasion of Japan was moving along, mass stocks of nerve gas were ready at the front to depopulate the islands. The Atomic Bomb saved them. The plan was to kill everything, move forward, kill everything, till there was nothing left to kill.
Such is war, Sryia is hardly more than organised crime bringing in some out of town hit men for a gang war. They are so many factions that if the gangs won, they could not rule, they would fight, and minor players would wind up with chemical weapons.
They have hardly killed more than Mexicans, and kidnapping for ransom is big in both countries. Well armed thug culture is still thug culture.
Assad is the lessor evil.
01 Jun 2013, 2:22 pm
