Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about

realignment or shaping, which I guess is the new terminology on it, because there has been a development and it brought about the possibility

that that is something that is now beginning,

something that has started.

We don't know that it's started. fact I think it's unlikely, but it's something

that's on the table now so it is worth discussing. Okay, so the news that started this.

Somebody conducted a strike on a high level,, very high-ranking member of Hamas.

The assumption is that it's Israel.

Israel has denied involvement.

That prompted the question, is this the beginning of realignment operations?

Maybe, maybe. So we are going to talk about what those are and how they work.

This strategy is viewed as best practice when you are talking about an establishment

force dealing with a non-state actor.

The goal is to realign the leadership, make them more interested in peace,

or I guess shape the leadership.

We are going to use a very, very simple example

and we're going to go through how the process works.

Understand this is over-simplistic.

We have it broken down into three categories of person. In real life there are dozens. The

categories we are going to use are somebody who is hyper militant, somebody who is

interested in peace or at least pragmatic and soldier.

In real life you have categories like hyper militant but inept which means they're not any good at their job so you leave

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