On 26/04/2017 17:04, TimW wrote:
On 25/04/17 11:52, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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Wars are a natural way to eliminate young males of breeding age when the
population exceeds the ability of the land to sustain them in the style
to which they wish to become accustomed.

The trick is to ensure the right young males get killed.
Without too much destruction of property

Nuclear weapons are not very good at that.


Utter ****. There are figures. I can't be bothered to look up the actual
estimates but something like this:

Napoleonic Wars, casualties:
95% soldiers/combatants 5% civilians, women, children
WW1
85% combatants 15% civilians
WW2
60% combatants 40% civilians
Late 20th Century Wars
20% combatants 80% civilians
Now, Iraq, Syria: casualties
5% combatants 95% civilians, women,children.

So modern warfare has become the high tech slaughter of innocent people.
That isn't just what ISIS do, it's what the British Army do too, and the
USA are very good at it. Civilian killing.

So the trick is to kill everybody foreign, keep your own military safely
out of harms way so casualties are way down in small numbers, and still
claim your brave lads are doing a fine thing for their country.

Drones, Cruise missiles etc are very good for that.

What's your guess at the figures for the Falklands war?