Silverseren@kbin.social to World News@lemmy.world · 8 months agoCNN Host Left Stunned As IDF Confirms Israel Hit Refugee Camp With Airstrikenewrepublic.comexternal-linkmessage-square175fedilinkarrow-up1726file-text
arrow-up1726external-linkCNN Host Left Stunned As IDF Confirms Israel Hit Refugee Camp With Airstrikenewrepublic.comSilverseren@kbin.social to World News@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square175fedilinkfile-text
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer seemed at a lost of words at the justification being used to bomb a refugee camp in Gaza.
minus-squareDremor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·8 months agoYou can send a strike group to kill them. Safer for civilians, but less safe for soldiers. Thus, they prefer to bomb it from a distance, and the civilians around are “acceptable collateral damage”.
minus-squaremwguy@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoYou can’t when they’re not at the front. And as long as the c&c infrastructure exists, sending troops on the ground to take objectives is difficult. Taking out control infrastructure with remote bombing has been a thing since the first artillery pieces.
You can send a strike group to kill them. Safer for civilians, but less safe for soldiers. Thus, they prefer to bomb it from a distance, and the civilians around are “acceptable collateral damage”.
You can’t when they’re not at the front. And as long as the c&c infrastructure exists, sending troops on the ground to take objectives is difficult.
Taking out control infrastructure with remote bombing has been a thing since the first artillery pieces.