Anonymous “Hacktivists” Strike a Blow Against ISIS

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19. You make a REEEEEEEALLY good point, alcina!

This is a different era we're in, now. With a very different enemy than we're used to. Seems like a GREAT idea - even an urgent one - to figure out new ways to fight and frustrate and thwart and defeat them. This is the kind of warfare we can wage, effectively, with 20th-Century weapons. All the guns 'n' ammo, the tanks, the ships, the air war, don't really give us that much of an advantage anymore, seems to me. Offensive moves like Anonymous uses - may be the new way.

It made me think back to what I read in school about the British Redcoats versus the ragtag colonists in the New World. The Redcoats thought business-as-usual was to march through the forests and the villages with their bright red coats making them easy targets, easily picked off by snipers and sneak-attacks from the enemy, hiding in wait and throwing whatever they had at the formalized phalanx. Now, granted, what I've learned since my school days calls for a LOT of the seeking of second opinions.

Hey, what do I know? (Said she who never served.)

But maybe we do need to rethink the whole idea of warfare, in this modern age. All the ferocious war toys in the world don't seem to make a difference against an enemy on the ground that's fired up with religious fervor and martyrdom - that metastasizes even more virulently at the drop of a drone bomb.