{"id":191359,"date":"2009-08-29T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/29\/how-sri-lanka-defeated-the-tamil-tigers\/"},"modified":"2009-08-29T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T10:24:00","slug":"how-sri-lanka-defeated-the-tamil-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/29\/how-sri-lanka-defeated-the-tamil-tigers\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sri Lanka Defeated the Tamil Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting analysis of <a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/sri-lankas-disconcerting-coin\/\">how Sri Lanka defeated the Tamil Tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The short version is that they ignore world opinion, and refused to make avoidance of civilian casualties a centerpiece of their campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Note that these are legal under international law, which requires that non-combatants not be targeted, not that efforts be made to protect them from combat activities that legitimately target the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>The post makes what I think is an error, in that it fails to distinguish between colonial conflicts, which include Iraq and Afghanistan, and internal civil wars, such as Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence shows that in an colonial conflict, these are precisely the most counter productive tactics.<\/p>\n<p>As to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is where I look for an application of this principle, I think that conflict in the disputed territories is much more of a colonial conflict than a civil war, so these techniques would not be effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting analysis of how Sri Lanka defeated the Tamil Tigers. The short version is that they ignore world opinion, and refused to make avoidance of civilian casualties a centerpiece of their campaign. Note that these are legal under international law, which requires that non-combatants not be targeted, not that efforts be made &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1147,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tactics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}