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Dennis Smith, the NYFD guy who wrote "Report from Engine Company 82" also wrote "Report from Ground Zero", several hundred pages of just what you describe.
I learned to hate terrorists when they threw Robert Stetham out on the tarmac, maybe earlier than that. I know we watched the Munich Olympics, but the kidnappings are hazy, I was only about 8 at the time.
9/11, then, was...a battle to be dealt with...not an...enlightenment. No matter how much it hurts, you can't stop to sightsee at times like that, doing so gets more of ours killed.
Contemplation takes place on quiet nights, alone.
The folks here at FR are not "staff'. Posting in words that could be interpreted that way was dumb of me, never an intention, instead a possibility overlooked, what we are here is a cooperative endeavor. It still functions that way though, the width and depth of what is presented here is such that a command structure would be irrelevent.
At times I wonder how long we will be allowed to enjoy this kind of freedom, because the concept itself destroys any hope of operational or tactical surprise if leveraged properly.
In fact, now that I think about it, it is both a natural result and a natural cause in the wide view of the evolutionary process. If we don't sterilize the planet first, we may have no choice but to assimilate the basic tools necessary for lasting peace, globally, instead of the selective way we embrace the elevation of the importance of the individual, balanced with needs of the cooperative whole, now, on a country by country and region by region basis.
If wars are doomed to fail for lack of surprise, then what other choice do we have?