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Originally Posted by Paslode
A Russian theater or Mumbai Event takes little more than the blink of an eye and it is too late.
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Agree the execution is often based on surprise and violence of action but the Achilles heel, IMO, is the pre-strike planning. The theater, the school, and even the city of Mumbai all had "long" planning that required coordination, target designation/financing, and commo.
How did LET get to Mumbai? How did the Chechens get to Moscow and Beslan? Could a strike team use Mexico as a launch point? Could they get weapons there too? Taliban control opium...drug cartels control Mexico...would the two ever work towards a common goal (money and power)?
I believe the only way we can delay the swarm-style attack is to go on the offense but heck, we cannot even get permission to expand Pred strikes in Pakistan!
The political will to unilaterally go deep into denied territory in order to strike our enemies just doesn't seem to exist and the focus seems to be on fixing the economy. So let's cut DOD since Iraq is over and Afghanistan will be over in 36 months.
AQ has always exercised tactical patience...and they return to what works. Just as TR pointed out, swarm-style attacks are common now. The attackers only stop when they have been killed by security forces. Seems like an easy choice to me.
The holiday season is almost upon us. Soon the malls will be full of unarmed and distracted Americans focused on other things besides survival because the USG claims they are doing everything possible to protect its citizens by using scanners and pat-downs. Hmmm...similar situations exist (crowded shopping centers) in Israel but they have dodged a mall attack. I wonder what they're doing (rhetorical)?