Tiny Human Ferret wrote:
> The Emperor Penguin wrote:
> >>And that's where it becomes LI, more or less. The way to prevent it
from
> >>becoming LI is to move the civilians out of the way so that if
someone
> >>shoots at you from a building, you can level it without creating a
> >>propaganda coup for the enemy.
> >
> > I believe the Brits tried something similar almost exactly a
century
> > ago, in the Boer war. The results were somewhat "mixed".
>
> Heh. I shall have to go study up on that. <sheepish>
I was referring to the birth of concentration camps, if that helps. Of
course, they were more concerned with trying to drain the ocean through
which Mao's "fish" swam than the propaganda war, per se.
~~~
The Emperor Penguin
