I agree, the Cabal properties should have been demolished, but the ones with the bombs were never told who really held the reigns of power. If they did, they would target the ones pulling the strings of all nations like puppets.
Militarily, however...
The greatest tactical weapon of war is turning your enemy's civilian population into an obstacle they must frequently contend with.
By bombing the homes of civilians, you put civilians out into the streets and demanding aid from the government as well as turning to crime to survive. Civil chaos does the most damage overall because the civilian population of a country can't simply be taken out like a battalion on the battlefield. The goal is to deplete the enemy's resources, because it costs more lives to destroy a wall than to build one.
Think of it like a battle of attrition. Take Sun Tzu's word for it:
https://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/aow/aow11.htm
- Thus the highest form of generalship is to baulk the enemy's plans; the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces; 1 the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field; 2 and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities. 3
- The rule, is, not to besiege walled cities if it can possibly be avoided. ...
- Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field. 7. With his forces intact he will dispute the mastery of the Empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph will be complete. This is the method of attacking by stratagem.
You COULD take out the power structures...
Or you could target their food stores and turn their own ravenous people against their rulers.
Then, their desperate people will deliver their places of power into your hands, fully intact, merely to end the famine.
I agree, the Cabal properties should have been demolished, but the ones with the bombs were never told who really held the reigns of power. If they did, they would target the ones pulling the strings of all nations like puppets.
Militarily, however...
The greatest tactical weapon of war is turning your enemy's civilian population into an obstacle they must frequently contend with.
By bombing the homes of civilians, you put civilians out into the streets and demanding aid from the government as well as turning to crime to survive. Civil chaos does the most damage overall because the civilian population of a country can't simply be taken out like a battalion on the battlefield. The goal is to deplete the enemy's resources, because it costs more lives to destroy a wall than to build one.
Think of it like a battle of attrition. Take Sun Tzu's word for it:
https://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/aow/aow11.htm
- Thus the highest form of generalship is to baulk the enemy's plans; the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces; 1 the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field; 2 and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.
- The rule, is, not to besiege walled cities if it can possibly be avoided. ...
- Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field. 7. With his forces intact he will dispute the mastery of the Empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph will be complete. This is the method of attacking by stratagem.
You COULD take out the power structures...
Or you could target their food stores and turn their own ravenous people against their rulers.
Then, their desperate people will deliver their places of power into your hands, fully intact, merely to end the famine.