ll74
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So is Israel's objective to overkill for deterence? I must've missed that statementIt's unfortunate for many, especially the innocent, but overkill is deterrence and a fact of life. It's what every military in history has tried to achieve. The word decimate is derived from the practice of exacting a high body count compared to one's own to deter an enemy's will to fight. The estimates for those killed in WWI are about 16 million. The US alone in that war lost 110,000 dead in 110 days of fighting. We killed millions upon millions in WWII. In the Vietnam War 2 million civilians on both sides and some 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters were killed and some 200,000 to 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers were killed. So, what exactly is an unsanctionable overkill?