Dear Srephen,
Probably the most successful example of this strategy in a counterinsurgency operation comes from world war 2 and the german occupation of yugoslavia. Unable to hunt all the large mountain areas for the resistance, the nazis developed a simple tit-for-tat strategy: for every german soldier killed by the resistance, they would round up and kill 100 civilians. For every soldier wounded, they would shoot 50. Well, it worked perfectly, and they didn`t even have to kill more than a few thousand in order to effectively cripple the resistance; that particular instance wasn`t a holocaust by any stretch of the imagination. I am sure that a similar strategy would work in our case, but I wonder, do you not see some very serious problems with its practical implementation? |
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