Re: Jamming IEDs

From: Jean-Marc Liotier (jim_at_liotier.org)
Date: 01/26/05 

To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:59:46 +0100

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:08:54 +0000, Dan Holdsworth wrote:
>
> US Soldiers have this little habit of trigger-happiness that is not
> being helped any by people continually sniping at them, and blasting
> them; further infuriating them is the sort of thing only a madman could
> contemplate.

Which is actually a successful outcome if the goal of the exercise is to
put them in such a defensive stance that that their relations with the
civilian population are significantly hampered and their negative image
reinforced. Provocation is one of the motives of terrorism : it is often
not the immediate effects of the bombing that count but the reinforcement
of the repression cycle that estranges some of the people further from an
increasingly paranoid opponent.