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Attacking hospitals or non-military infrastructure to degrade resilience rather than only military installations.
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soft targeting
Attacking hospitals or non-military infrastructure to degrade resilience rather than only military installations.
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Soft targeting and double taps are described as attacks on hospitals, rescuers, and civilians designed to degrade resilience and produce fear.
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"...bombing. Okay. So they're carpet bombing Tehran. Okay. Um they're doing soft targeting. Soft targeting. Soft targeting means that instead of attacking military installations,..."
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"What you do is this. You attack a place, right? You kill some people, and then people try to come and help the people..."
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"...We're already seeing this in the Middle East where Iran is targeting data centers in the Middle East and it's very easy to blow..."
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"...damage as possible the best way to do that is by targeting key infrastructure power plants desalination plants roads railway networks okay i can't..."
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"...are attacking Israel. Their leadership, decapitating their leadership, as well as targeting their economy. Later on, as this war progresses and escalates, they will..."
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"...leaders. Because then there's no off ramp. Okay? So. So by targeting Lerajani, the Israelis and Americans have ensured that there will be no..."
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"The first is attack military targets. Okay? And what they're basically targeting are U.S. radar systems and air defenses. Because once these two things..."
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"...they will attack your economy as well. Okay? With missiles. Basically targeting oil fields. If you attack their civilian infrastructure, they will attack your..."
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"...think about it, Iran can be much more selective in its targeting than the United States and Israel. And therefore, the options that it..."
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"...fight this war. They have these satellites that provide for precision targeting. They have these airplanes, these B -2 bombers, F -15s, that are..."
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"And they're targeting police stations. Why? Because they're trying to reduce and eliminate opposition so that they can arm the Kurds and have them..."
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"We're targeting the military base. And second of all, it wasn't us which struck the school. It was an air defense missile that went..."
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