I am not in favor of ‘playing by the rules.’
If I had my way, terrorists would get a quick summary court martial, be sentenced to death, have a cap gun fired over their head, and then their ‘corpses’ would be sent to a special ship in the middle of the Pacific where everything they knew would be squeezed of of them before their mangled bodiers were dropped over the side. Likewise, I’d go after their families as well (guilty or innocent, there would not be an ‘bin Laden’ left in the world...).
But we don’t get to do things that way. We’re party to certain agreements.
Now, if we repudidiated the Geneva Conventions (a good idea, IMHO, as the gist of them seems to be “Western Nations will not be allowed to decisively win wars any more.” ) then maybe we could get to fixing these problems.
But, this doesn’t really deal with the LCS problem. The BEST solution to the ‘swarm’ is an Apache, (or a close support aircraft like the A-10) with sixteen Hellfires under the wings. Just make regular passes around the edge of the swarm, delivering one missile per boat, then go home, refuel and re-load and go hunting again.
Failing that, the USN needs to mount stabilzied turrents with HMGs or light auto-cannon to puree the boats as they come in range.
Agree, we should repudiate the Geneva Convention, IMO specific to dealing with terrorists who (obviously) don't adhere to any rules of war.
The rest of my post, expressed in some frustration, obviously has no military background to it as I was not able to serve (vision issues.) When I see threads like this one I read them with a sense of fascination at the knowledge on them, and wish I had a clue as to what all the different terms mean. Some I can figure out if I read long enough, others I can't. Clearly many on this thread (and others I read ...) have a ton of military service, experience and common sense, just wish our "leadership" had same.
Thank you for your service!