Silverseren to World News@lemmy.world • 1 year agoCNN Host Left Stunned As IDF Confirms Israel Hit Refugee Camp With Airstrikenewrepublic.comexternal-linkmessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up1716arrow-down138file-textcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.mlnews@lemmy.world
arrow-up1678arrow-down1external-linkCNN Host Left Stunned As IDF Confirms Israel Hit Refugee Camp With Airstrikenewrepublic.comSilverseren to World News@lemmy.world • 1 year agomessage-square156fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.mlnews@lemmy.world
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer seemed at a lost of words at the justification being used to bomb a refugee camp in Gaza.
minus-squareDremorlinkfedilinkEnglish10•1 year 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-square@mwguy@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglish-5•1 year 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.