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<blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 5836721" data-attributes="member: 34175"><p>From a military standpoint, genocide is bad for business. When you start the whole sale slaughter of innocents, you get rebellious subjects, citizens or allies depending upon their moral stance.</p><p></p><p>From a tactical (short-term) standpoint, yes it may be the most expedient way to remove a target, but from a political/strategic (long-term) standpoint the immediate success outweighs the repercussions. And the tactical must ALWAYS answer to the strategic. Success on the battlefield does not always mean success with the local/national or international media (the Neo Yew Journal, the Longbow Archer Times, the Nature Broadcasting Channel or the Centaur News Network.) Unless there is a large trade off that can be bargained or balanced against (like the surprise attack against the human kingdom's naval yards or the humans flying giant eagles into the elves trees), you run into a vocal group of nay-sayers.</p><p></p><p>The problem I have with TV is they tend to paint things as black and white. There is an enemy, go kill them. You know who the "good guy" is and you know who the "bad guy" is. Wars may be fought on battlegrounds, but they are won in boardrooms. Political, religious and social organizations are the ultimate winners of a war, they write the treaties, laws, reparation agreements and such after the last round has been fired.</p><p></p><p>In this scenario, when the King's guard have eradicated the single elven village, (men, women and children) and have salted the earth, the halflings, fairies, centaurs and gnomes form an alliance to smite the axis of evil that is the human kingdom. The dwarves, who just released said war criminal from prison may side with the fey, though this may not be a good political move considering they just had said scum in their possession and let him walk. More likely they will remain neutral and sell arms to the fey in order to rid the realms from this oppressive human government sll the while keeping their hands "clean"</p><p></p><p>Your opening argument, that the elves are terrorists is one of pre-determined species "rightness". Black and white; from the elves POV, are they not right?, the dwarves, the fey. The elves in this case are protesting violently the wholesale encroachment of the human kingdom on their ancestral territory, maybe? Every tyrant begins doing something good for the people they serve, and then drag them into their personal vendetta against faction X, Y or Z.</p><p></p><p>And how on earth is 24 related to elves????</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thunderfoot, post: 5836721, member: 34175"] From a military standpoint, genocide is bad for business. When you start the whole sale slaughter of innocents, you get rebellious subjects, citizens or allies depending upon their moral stance. From a tactical (short-term) standpoint, yes it may be the most expedient way to remove a target, but from a political/strategic (long-term) standpoint the immediate success outweighs the repercussions. And the tactical must ALWAYS answer to the strategic. Success on the battlefield does not always mean success with the local/national or international media (the Neo Yew Journal, the Longbow Archer Times, the Nature Broadcasting Channel or the Centaur News Network.) Unless there is a large trade off that can be bargained or balanced against (like the surprise attack against the human kingdom's naval yards or the humans flying giant eagles into the elves trees), you run into a vocal group of nay-sayers. The problem I have with TV is they tend to paint things as black and white. There is an enemy, go kill them. You know who the "good guy" is and you know who the "bad guy" is. Wars may be fought on battlegrounds, but they are won in boardrooms. Political, religious and social organizations are the ultimate winners of a war, they write the treaties, laws, reparation agreements and such after the last round has been fired. In this scenario, when the King's guard have eradicated the single elven village, (men, women and children) and have salted the earth, the halflings, fairies, centaurs and gnomes form an alliance to smite the axis of evil that is the human kingdom. The dwarves, who just released said war criminal from prison may side with the fey, though this may not be a good political move considering they just had said scum in their possession and let him walk. More likely they will remain neutral and sell arms to the fey in order to rid the realms from this oppressive human government sll the while keeping their hands "clean" Your opening argument, that the elves are terrorists is one of pre-determined species "rightness". Black and white; from the elves POV, are they not right?, the dwarves, the fey. The elves in this case are protesting violently the wholesale encroachment of the human kingdom on their ancestral territory, maybe? Every tyrant begins doing something good for the people they serve, and then drag them into their personal vendetta against faction X, Y or Z. And how on earth is 24 related to elves???? [/QUOTE]
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