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    Quote Originally Posted by William F. Owen View Post
    Warfare is a struggle between two armed groups. One armed group is required to overcome the other. Killing the right people enables that. Killing the wrong people is almost always counter-productive. Until you reduce the enemy's ability to constrain your freedom of action, you can't do any of the so called hearts and minds stuff, which should be focussed on creating a hostile environment for the enemy! - not just a nice environment for the locals!
    Hear, hear... maybe this should be in one of those new-fangled wiki FMs.
    Last edited by IntelTrooper; 07-08-2009 at 05:15 PM. Reason: I'm a product of public schooling, please don't hate me.
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