Surgical strikes breed guerrilla movements. The only way to prevent this is by involving the civilian population to the point they won’t harbor and hide soldiers and fighters. This is why our modern wars last so much longer than wars prior to Vietnam.
“The only way to prevent this is by involving the civilian population to the point they won’t harbor and hide soldiers and fighters.”
I remember growing up (born near the end of WW2) kids were taught through the comic book media to hate Jap’s and Nazis. It was very effective. Much less so for Korea...