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There’s some nuance to understand about targeting flows and precision strikes, and why “incredible” is suitable term to use. Not that what you list out didn’t occur, certainly


The only thing incredible about "targeting flow" and "precision strikes" is the genius of the pentagone propagandists who coined these expressions and managed to have people use them and somehow believe there is any kind of subtleties in the way this war was fought.


> There’s some nuance to understand about targeting flows and precision strikes

There's a lot of "nuance". From understanding that these systems will always "need" to target and strike, and they'll always find an enemy to strike at because it's their sole reason to exist, to the arbitrary definition of "precision" or "success".

The entire system and philosophy become redundant without guaranteed targets and weak without guaranteed success.

What it means today is that a random US citizen in the street can be a target, and arresting him up can mean success. Being infallible by definition is indeed incredible.


The number of times the US bombed a wedding because the comms traffic looks the same as a big op was evil.


"Tenuous" is the ever present flip side of the "incredible" assertion, of course.


Exactly. In military terms - Incredible means highly capable




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