So is terrorism and how muslims conduct war by not wearing identifiable military uniforms when conducting their terrorist acts (suicide bombings, etc..)
Why should we play by the rules when they do not?!
Blind 'em and fill 'em with hot lead afterwards. What's the problem? Dead men can't speak and the fish / sea life will take care of the rest once we're done with 'em.
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.