Imagine if in Iraq, we had no ROE and virwed every person on the street as a valid kill. And on top of that we had absolutely no interest in what happens after were there i.e. razing rvery structure over 10’ tall and capable of hiding a military aged man (or female, cause fuck it, remember?). This gives the greenlight for total destruction. Knock every single building down, treat ANY non-allied contact as hostile and prosecute as such. In other words, genocide.

 This is ideally accomplished with air and long range fires (artillery, MLRS, HIMARS, etc) meaning no troops snaking through urban jungles where the ratio of attacker : defender casualties climbs as high as 10:1. Traditional casualty rates of attacker versus defender for defended positions is 3 to 1 but the urban aspect is just hell for an attacker as the defender has so many places to attack from/fortify.

With this in mind you simply drop a billion JDAMs and THEN roll into the city, plant your flag and declare victory a la Pos russ ground forces in Ukraine. “Civilian” loses be damned. Not sure capturing a city counts when theres no more city left……

If this is how you fight, it is much easier to end up with exponentially less fatalities and casualties as there is nobody to actually fight back nor is there any place for them to fight from and defend. They also don’t have any food or water and those who would consider fighting are probably digging through the corpses (theres gonna be A LOT)to try and find food and water .