Can it possibly be that I am the only one who has considered the intelligence that we, as a nation, are giving to all of our advisories by shooting down all the drones? To be sure, we are saving lives by shooting them down in the short term.

On the other hand, might it be that we are telling the enemy our capabilities. Better to avoid using shooting the things out of the sky.

How do we avoid such things? First, never, never publish our successes, and for sure, we shouldn’t let the enemy know of his success.

It is basic war tactics, and I mean very basic. Make them pay to find out such things. Make them guess to find out where they succeeded or failed. If allied soldiers die, what purpose does it accomplish to tell the enemy. If we all survive, why tell the world?

For another thing, always strike back as if they had enormous success. Not only does it make the enemy pay, they know little or nothing of their success. It is far better to keep them guessing…about it all.

Incidentally, if we decide to send a few bombers in, let’s not let them know in advance or after. The only thing we let them know is that it might have been us, maybe because of what they tried to do to us.

Best… keep them in the dark, or at least only let them know what we want them know. And we don’t want them to be sure of that.

On the other hand, it just might be turning out as Old Joe wants. That is, let the enemy know everything and keep us in the dark. He does make me wonder who he considers the friends or the foes.