As I said, I don't know what the real numbers are, definitely not my field of expertise. They could very well be including stores of small arms, housing/org points for known/suspected cell leaders, etc. My point was that Hamas is likely to have a strategy that encourages broad dispersal of its weapons and personnel for the reasons I mentioned. So when someone says that 1,500 military targets in an area as small as Gaza is absurd, I'd suggest that it isn't absurd on the face of it. It may be wrong, mind, I don't know. There may not be 1,500, maybe it's 1,000, maybe even a bit lower, maybe even higher. But it isn't absurd as the person in the article tried to claim with no supporting evidence.
Judah On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1500 launch sites in Gaza would be roughly 10 per square mile, so I > suspect the term military target does not refer to launch sites. The > latest claim is that Hamas has around 10 thousand rockets. If you > spread them around to 1500 sites, that would only be six rockets per > site. Pointless. > > If they are talking about the entire Palestinian area, then 1500 > targets might be more feasible at point six (.6) per square mile. > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > If you have 1,500 rocket launchers, then put them in 1,500 different > > locations. Mix them in with civilian infrastructure as much as possible > to > > both disguise the items and potentially deter retribution for fear of > > killing civilians. Hamas is not at a point where they are going to > severely > > impact Israel's military capability even if they had all of their > missiles > > together in a few places under expert control, so it makes a lot more > sense > > for them to go with a lot less centralized control and much wider > > dispersement of those weapons. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371773 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
