So yes, he absolutely wants to create these "no-win" situations, knowing, as Slap indicated, we tend to escalate rather than de-escalate.
Niel
Which makes total sense from their perspective. VC/NVA elements used to do that quite often in Vietnam. Fire from village at passing US patrol, knowing full well that the US grunts would call in fire support. Then fade away and let the village get plastered.
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
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