• PugJesus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    WP is ugly stuff, and militaries the world round use the '“It’s just a smokescreen” excuse.

    In every case, it’s blatant lies. WP is useful as a smokescreen, but much more useful as a means of flushing people from cover. Conveniently, the process for blinding an enemy entrenched position with smoke and burning them out with WP is pretty similar, and governments love plausible deniability.