War against leaders sorta, kinda was RE: Crowbars

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Actually, that would be fairly affective if the UN was powerful enough (or had
enough help from the big guys).
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While the current Earth gets low marks as 'civilized', there is some movement
towards outlawing such activities; true, often used as a justification for
one's own such activities, but there's some progress.

In SPI's Starforce Trilogy universe, there was a definite disconnect between
the activities in space and those on the ground, as well as a
basic 'non-violent' warfare.

In my own vague future history, and, yes, I'll be getting back to the
corporate question soon, the destruction caused by the corporate wars, helped
reinforce an attitude of 'those silly space boys can blow themselves up if
they wish, but they better not involve civilians if they want continued
support from where it REALLY counts'.

This has failed several times in the recent past, but could actually function
for awhile.

I'd see this adjusted after the first colony attacked by Kra'vak...

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Using weapons of mass destruction against populated areas is considered such a
terrible thing that the law requires removing your genes from the gene pool.
You will be executed and all your family (to, say 1st cousins maybe) will be
sterilized.
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Unfortunately, some governments are mere puppets with the true rulers well
hidden, or even completely absorbed into a complex and souless
bureaucracy. I don't think simple gun-to-head is enough; it would take
a human-space-wide cultural change.

On the other hand, I think we still have a chance of PSB'ing planet death wars
out of the question.

The_Beast

-Douglas J. Evans, curmudgeon

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