Reminds me of the plan during World War II to trap foxes, paint them luminescent green, and use them to terrify the Japanese garrison on Okinawa. Well, maybe some of the Japanese would have died laughing. Negative publicity of the green foxes project due to a practice release of them on Manhattan, caused the cancellation of this waste of taxpayer money.
Bats in the Belfry
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
It is reported in the Russian Primary Chronicle, in the time before the conversion of SS Olga and Vladimir, that a Russian leader besieging a city had the swallows that left that city each evening netted alive, then fitted with a low slow-match. The birds carried the fire back to their nests in the thatched houses and set the city aflame.
As a submarine sailor, I had always thought that if there was a damn fool idea that should never be tried but was, then the US Navy was behind it. Apparently, however, any branch of the US Military is capable of such idiocy.
Bats…swallows….
now it’s drones. PETA probably backed the idea of drone warfare. 🐦🦇
Yes, Philip, I, too thought of drones. However cyber warfare is on the agenda.
Ancient warfare used bee hives to drive the enemy away.
Japan had suicide bombers. Viet Nam used children to infiltrate the compounds with bombs.
Death, war, hunger and pestilence.