Ilya Starinov – The godfather of modern insurgent IED warfare

http://www.standingwellback.com/home/2019/5/29/ilya-starinov-the-godfather-of-modern-insurgent-ied-warfare.html

by monort • 7 years ago

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keenmaster• 7 years ago

“Bizarrely he described how he would rather work making IEDs rather than accompany his colleagues to watch the spectacle of the bullfight ‘where innocent animals were killed’.”

Cognitive dissonance at its finest.

ummonk• 7 years ago

I think the key word there is "innocent".

mlevental• 7 years ago

I agree with you in theory but let's not pretend that ieds don't have high collateral damage and that that's not painfully obvious (so there's still probably cognitive dissonance involved in saying something like that).

amanuensis• 7 years ago

Maybe, but that doesn't say much. The relationship between soldiers and animals is often complex.

https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2011/09/...

mistrial9• 7 years ago

the ferocity of human battles before modern weapons are explicitly re-enacted with a fullness of pain, rage and despair. Solution "no one should do any violence" and "all animals become peaceful" has yet to emerge signed -psuedo-Hemmingway

HeWhoLurksLate• 7 years ago

Wow, I had no idea.

This reminds me a bit of some of the American Revolution's more guerrilla tactics- shooting the enemy's generals directly, hiding behind more-or-less impenetrable trees, and the like.

It's unfortunate that now we're on the receiving end of these attacks- home soil advantage is huge- but it feels like there are better ways of dealing with IED's than what we're curgently doing.

That was a really interesting read.

orthoxerox2• 7 years ago

but it feels like there are better ways of dealing with IED's than what we're curgently doing.

Filtration camps?

vageli• 7 years ago

> but it feels like there are better ways of dealing with IED's than what we're curgently doing.
Filtration camps?

Reading briefly about the filtration camps, I couldn't find anything IED related. Could you elaborate?

devteambravo• 7 years ago

What an interesting read as a SVBIED attack survivor.

vibrolax• 7 years ago

His role in the Spanish civil war sounds like a model for the protagonist of Hemingway's "For whom the Bell tolls".

Ilya Starinov – The godfather of modern insurgent IED warfare

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