Thread 64075010

>Human life is more valuable than hyper advanced mechanical wonders
>You should focus your missiles and airstrike hitting valuable enemy infrastructure that you could conquer instead of maximing their casualties and also give warning
I never understood this line of thinking, the enemy logistics cant function without humans, should it reason be you focus on attacking civilians?

And every civilian takes part in the conflict be it making drones, or being the next mobik to be sent to the grinder.

>>64075010 (OP)
hit both. One to help conquer, one to drive a populace closer to capitulation to make people stop dying

Most humans are more replaceable than infrastructure and technology, so killing them doesn't accomplish much beyond fucking over the other nation in the extreme long term after the war is over (which might become your nation if you win). Unless you target specific difficult to replace individuals, all you are doing is removing a few baristas and street sweepers from the other side's economy to replace those factory workers you blapped.

See the current war between Ukraine and Russia, where both sides are bottlenecked by equipment, training and logistics - raw manpower is such a secondary concern that Russia is choosing to burn through huge amounts of it to save a little equipment by using expendable waves of men instead of armoured thrusts, and Ukraine has complained for ages that it has trained troops ready to go but nothing to equip them with.

>>64075010 (OP)
Because if you delete a city with a population of 30 million and then tell your enemy you're going to do it again they're gonna ask you really nicely not to.
Call up Xi Jinping on the phone after deleting Shanghai and tell him you got 5 more hot aimed at Guangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, Wuhan, and idk Pyongyang and he'll be like "No wait I sorry" in perfect broken engrish.

>>64075010 (OP)
you should be attacking both per warden's five rings model

>>64075010 (OP)
Within a short time frame (ex. up to a few years), infrastructure is harder to replace than humans. In particular if you also kill small numbers of highly trained humans alongside that infrastructure. Additionally, as people tend to be more spread out due to missiles/airstrikes, you're less likely to be able to hit large masses of people with a single strike versus say knocking out a single port or stocked fuel depot.

>>64075010 (OP)
>Human life is more valuable than hyper advanced mechanical wonders
You got that completely wrong. Humans are pretty worthless and weak and targeting them is the lowest form of warfare after besieging a city. There are way too many of them around and they don't actually amount to much of anything on their own.
It's the machines that are the force multipliers that make humans deadly. Take away the machines and all the enemy can do is pew-pew at you, at which point even a Humvee can just plow over them.
The Body Politic of the nations has been a Cyborg at least since WW1 and you can conquer it by attacking or taking control of the machine parts.

Attacking western democracies with populations that don't believe in total war will merely get a western nation with a lot of money very pissed off at you. China? Russia? Who gives a fuck those people don't care if their neighbor gets burned alive.