The organization, an outgrowth of the book of the same name, espouses a radical philosophy called "decisive ecological warfare", which it describes as "the last resort of a movement isolated, co-opted, and weary from never ending legal battles and blockades".
Despite a history going back ages, and despite occasional grim successes, germ weapons have never played decisive roles in warfare or terrorism.
After all, hadn't glorious charges by men on horseback been a decisive element in warfare for millennia?
Despite having long since ceased to be a decisive weapon of warfare, when ordered the Australians had unhesitatingly charged towards the Viet Cong machine-guns in the certainty of suffering casualties.
Concepts of "network-centric warfare," "rapid, decisive operations," "shock and awe" and "full-spectrum dominance" suggested that near-perfect intelligence would enable precise military operations and point a straight line to success.
For half a century, big missile submarines, known as boomers, have been arguably the most decisive weapon systems in modern warfare – the queen on the strategic chessboard – because of their capacity to remain unseen until the critical moment, unleashing enormous destructive force without warning.
However, in 1916 he tried to secure the mediation of the United States, and, realizing that U.S. entry into the war would be decisive, he resisted the advocates of unrestricted submarine warfare.
The navy was Britain's instrument for major war, and Britain's allies held it in such high regard because they believed that its capacity to wage economic warfare would be rapidly decisive.
The march to Baghdad in particular exemplified the commanding American superiority in 21st-century warfare: swift, agile and decisive, employing overpowering technology to focus relentless violence all at once all across an enemy's territory.
After its failure, the possibility of a decisive breakthrough was gone and trench warfare resumed, with objectives being measured in hundreds of yards.
