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    Pretext or Punitive

    Sure; we had a lot of both.

    Here's my favorite cow story (which has both), Into the West - Part 3 (Dreams and Schemes); starts at 56:00; ends at 1:02:20. Great ending, IMO - payback's a mother -...
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    Mark:

    I'll post something re: Giustozzi's book in the thread, Second-party Counterinsurgency, when I get around to it.

    Regards

    Mike

    PS: Hmm ..., 100 cattle per perp. Sounds like the founding of...
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    Mark:

    This is a subject which badly needs discussion - not in this thread, I'll add; but in one of the threads looking at the policies and resultant rules concerning civilians and who may be targeted for...
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    Voices Crying in the Wilderness ?? - Part 3

    Picking up where Alach left off is Anna Simons, 21st Century Cultures of War - Advantage Them (2013, NPS, 64 pp.), whose title answers the "Cortes" question - the contemporary Flower Warriors will...
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    Voices Crying in the Wilderness ?? - Part 2

    Alach, The New Aztecs - Ritual and Restraint in Contemporary Western Military Operations (2011, SSI, pp.81):



    Alach's bottom line is generally somber (pp.37-39):



    The next author, Anna...
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    Voices Crying in the Wilderness ?? - Part 1

    Bill, and everyone else interested:

    These monographs take some digesting, but the following people are worth reading - those who don't like unconventional thinking should probably not bother.
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    "African Way of War" ...

    or, is there a more generalized principle here:



    if, for a moment in considering this, we leave aside Carl's implicit caveat re: whether "mass murder of civilians [can ever be] a legitimate...
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