Quote Originally Posted by Stan View Post
What keeps BH from going after the military other than shear size and far more firepower ? Playing with law enforcement has been their goal and quasi revenge, but attacking say 85,000 trained troops may be a bit harder than a bunch of cops.
Do people in the affected area hate cops more than they hate soldiers? Rebel groups sometimes target police because the populace loathes the police, and killing them wins friends.

For a group using terror tactics, good cops are probably a bigger threat than soldiers... street level networks and the ability to generate fast intel mean more than firepower in that fight, and good cops have that... of course in most of the developing world good cops are not very common!