Re: Libyan: Qaddafi forces shoot hospital patients

[Guest guest]

Could be what they are doing is trying to divert some of the protesters to having to defend the hospital. Rather brutal though. If those mercs could shoot straight, they could also aim to wound rather than kill which would also pack the hospitals. By picking off the more aggressive of the protesters and what look like leaders, they would do a better job of quelling the revolt at least for a while.

In a message dated 2/24/2011 10:59:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, no_reply writes:

Libyan: Qaddafi forces shoot hospital patients

[Guest guest]

Actually the " Shot to Wound " tactic is ideal if the opponent

has limited resources. By disabling one of the adversaries but not

killing them you take additional personnel out of combat to care for the

wounded. Two birds with one stone so to speak...

Ender

At 06:19 PM 2/25/2011, you wrote:

Could be what they are doing is trying to divert some of the

protesters to having to defend the hospital. Rather brutal though. If

those mercs could shoot straight, they could also aim to wound rather

than kill which would also pack the hospitals. By picking off the more

aggressive of the protesters and what look like leaders, they would do a

better job of quelling the revolt at least for a while.

In a message dated 2/24/2011 10:59:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

no_reply writes:

Libyan: Qaddafi forces shoot hospital

patients

[Guest guest]

A wounded man takes out at least two others to take them away. It also requires a degree of logistics to transport the wounded to the hospital and the medical care of course. Studies also have shown that one wounded man also takes the fight out of 4 others, at least temporarily. A good leader can rally them again, but good leaders aren't common.

The Israelis would take advantage of this during some riots. They would have snipers with .22 caliber silenced sniper rifles. The snipers would pick out the more aggressive ones and the leaders and shoot them in the groin. Seeing their leaders and inspirations drop when no shot was heard, and then not being dead but shot in the family jewels had a quieting effect on the others. In the same way US snipers in Iraq were able to break up attacks on US posts by shooting the more aggressive ones, spotters, and leaders when they could be picked out (and rules of engagement allowed them to be targeted). Seeing their buddies getting picked off at 100 yards pushed them back to 200. Seeing them hit at 200 pushed back to 300 and so on. A small enough post could be overrun, as could a larger one with a determined enemy, but the practice works.

In Lybia it just looks like they are shooting everyone.

Actually the "Shot to Wound" tactic is ideal if the opponent has limited resources. By disabling one of the adversaries but not killing them you take additional personnel out of combat to care for the wounded. Two birds with one stone so to speak...Ender

[Guest guest]

He's making the assumption that anyone who is wounded is an enemy and is killing

them off before they can recover and move against him either overtly or

covertly.

Also, killing off wounded means the state doesn't have to put in any resources

to care for them if they become permanently disabled.

Administrator

Could be what they are doing is trying to divert some of the protesters to

having to defend the hospital. Rather brutal though. If those mercs could shoot

straight, they could also aim to wound rather than kill which would also pack

the hospitals. By picking off the more aggressive of the protesters and what

look like leaders, they would do a better job of quelling the revolt at least

for a while.

[Guest guest]

He's making the assumption that anyone who is wounded is an enemy and is killing

them off before they can recover and move against him either overtly or

covertly.

Also, killing off wounded means the state doesn't have to put in any resources

to care for them if they become permanently disabled.

Administrator

Could be what they are doing is trying to divert some of the protesters to

having to defend the hospital. Rather brutal though. If those mercs could shoot

straight, they could also aim to wound rather than kill which would also pack

the hospitals. By picking off the more aggressive of the protesters and what

look like leaders, they would do a better job of quelling the revolt at least

for a while.

[Guest guest]

The problem with killing hospital patients is that it kinda tends to

make people just a little outraged. Though this is not very shocking

are the Libyan air force and navy are given orders to target

civilians.

The Israelis would take advantage of this during

some riots. They would have snipers with .22 caliber

silenced sniper rifles. The snipers would pick out the

more aggressive ones and the leaders and shoot them in

the groin. Seeing their leaders and inspirations drop

when no shot was heard, and then not being dead but

shot in the family jewels had a quieting effect on the

others.

..

I honestly do not understand why the genitals would have a greater

effect than the head. This may be coming from the perspective of

someone that is effectively out of the gene pool, but I would

certainly value my brain over my genitals.

[Guest guest]

The problem with killing hospital patients is that it kinda tends to

make people just a little outraged. Though this is not very shocking

are the Libyan air force and navy are given orders to target

civilians.

The Israelis would take advantage of this during

some riots. They would have snipers with .22 caliber

silenced sniper rifles. The snipers would pick out the

more aggressive ones and the leaders and shoot them in

the groin. Seeing their leaders and inspirations drop

when no shot was heard, and then not being dead but

shot in the family jewels had a quieting effect on the

others.

..

I honestly do not understand why the genitals would have a greater

effect than the head. This may be coming from the perspective of

someone that is effectively out of the gene pool, but I would

certainly value my brain over my genitals.

[Guest guest]

" The problem with killing hospital patients is that it kinda tends to make

people just a little outraged. Though this is not very shocking are the Libyan

air force and navy are given orders to target civilians. "

If the government has the guns and you don't, no one cares if you're outraged

because they can just kill you off. And that is what the government of Libya is

doing. You wanna live? Support the government. You wanna die? Then don't support

the government.

Administrator