Remember the marine barracks in Beirut
I remember the Beirut bombing, and it was not because some stupid military beaurocrat set 600 or 700 troups above a huge store of ammo. It may have been because no one imagined that a big truck full of explosive material could be placed near enough to the building to cause massive damage. Kind of like the Oklahoma bombing. Anywhere large numbers of people gather or are gathered can be a target. Doing something really stupid like placing large numbers of soldiers above large amounts of ammo in a war zone is beyond stupid. No doubt one or more people will pay the price.
Yesterday Russia had raised the dead figure to 89. A lot of digging no doubt is still being done. Eyes in town apparently have reported seeing trucks full of bodies in transport. The HIMARS (4) were sent by Ukraine to time with Putin’s New Year’s speech and celebrations. Russia reports 2 were blocked, and apparently 1 or more set off the stored ammo which disintegrated a large 3 story technical school.
Something I discovered while looking at the Beirut situation years ago, was that we also had people killed shortly thereafter in Kuwait in a similar manner. If I remember correctly, the French also had several dozen killed that way in Beirut either immediately before or after our troops were killed there. More recently Beirut has suffered a disasterous explosion, I think fertilizer, killing around 3,000 people and destroying a large area of buildings. I pity the Lebanese.