Re:Military drone swarms and how to combat them
by tuatoru on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @05:25AM
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Ah, the "there's no kill like overkill" idea.
Quoting from TVTropes[1]:-
> Much, much more common in fiction (especially of the 'revenge fantasy' type) than in Real Life violence. To a strategist, overkill is Awesome, but Impractical because the risk of enemy survival is vastly outweighed by the certainty that you're spending a fortune in time, material, and (usually) manpower to ensure the enemy's death. The weaker and less numerous the target, the more wasteful overkill is.
I would add "or the more geographically dispersed" before "the enemy is".
Quoting from TVTropes[1]:-
> Much, much more common in fiction (especially of the 'revenge fantasy' type) than in Real Life violence. To a strategist, overkill is Awesome, but Impractical because the risk of enemy survival is vastly outweighed by the certainty that you're spending a fortune in time, material, and (usually) manpower to ensure the enemy's death. The weaker and less numerous the target, the more wasteful overkill is.
I would add "or the more geographically dispersed" before "the enemy is".
1. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThereIsNoKillLik...