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[burningpet]

The problem with mercenaries is that when they face the question of life vs money, they will prefer life in most cases, while their opponents face the question of life vs martyrdom and are sometimes stupid enough to choose martyrdom.

[DJ]

Yeah, mercenaries have a history of just putting on a show and not making any actual risks, like Italian Condottieri.

[martinuzz]

Hmm interesting. I wonder if the Netherlands will follow up on Britain's example, on making going to fight for IS count as High Treason for british nationals.

Interesting why? Dutch criminal law does not have death penalty. Civil law (obviously) has it neither. However, high treason, which falls under martial law, is, even in our usually outspoken anti-death penalty county, still punishable by death. Hasn't occured since somewhere late 40s - early 50s though, when the last nazi war criminals put on trial in our country were hanged / shot.

[Dutchling]

European Law would never allow it though.

Although I doubt it would ever come to that.

[aenri]

European Law would never allow it though.

Although I doubt it would ever come to that.

European law (precisely international law - I take it you mean European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms)  abolished death penalty only in peacetime. If the government decide to try ISIS fighters under wartime laws, they could be even executed.

[Wolfhunter107]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29689832

[Strife26]

Badass.

[smjjames]

GJ US army, you tried to paradrop weapons to the besieged people in Kobani and ended up getting them into the hands of ISIS.

Nice tactical blunder......

[Zangi]

The risk of trying to directly supply the frontlines... Without a proper escort.  Even then, the lines move.

[smjjames]

You'd think they would put the supplies well behind the frontlines. I don't know anything about the strategy or tactics that was happening in that situation though.

[Darvi]

Shouldn't this thread be renamed to "Now with WMDs (But the wrong ones)"?

[smjjames]

Shouldn't this thread be renamed to "Now with WMDs (But the wrong ones)"?

No, because there still aren't any.

[Darvi]

There were, apparently. Just, you know, age-old decommissioned ones which aren't the ones they went to war over.

[Zangi]

You'd think they would put the supplies well behind the frontlines. I don't know anything about the strategy or tactics that was happening in that situation though.

Being an ass, I am assuming that the traditional supply lines are cut or at least pretty dangerous-resource intensive to utilize and maintain for a 'besieged' city.  So the US tried to coordinate a supply drop with the defenders, but hey, the enemy is also watching the skies.

Its probably not incompetence that screwed things up.  But I guess we like to play the blame game and make light of the enemy?

[martinuzz]

If I were to drop weapons into this conflict, I would have made sure to have my military intelligence division research and produce guns with built in GPS tracking devices, so drones can home in on them if they fall into the wrong hands, or the right hands turn wrong.. A few days built-in delay before they actually start transmitting would help prevent detection, and even if the thing becomes known, it is a good deterrent against people from the wrong side taking an opportunity to seize drops.