Hypothetical Situation #001

[Jasper]

Are explosives really that expensive?

[Requia ☣]

I don't know if it'd be the raw cost so much as needing a lot of it.

The bombs used to bust German dams in WWII had 6600 pounds of torpex (equivalent to about 5 tons TNT).

If I had 5 tons of TNT I could probably cause a lot more chaos (Free way overpasses and rail lines both come to mind, bonus points for where a freeway passes over the rail line) than busting a dam, and the delivery for a car bomb or the like is a lot easier.

[Jasper]

Oh well.  I really just said it to be funny anyway.

[Cain]

A global guerrilla strategy is only useful for creating the kind of chaos where local actors can then seize power.

Unless you're only using it as a stepping stone towards ruling a country, supplying order is a better route to global power than supplying disorder.

[Cramulus]

Might be better to order five dozen pizzas for the mayor and move on to another town at that point.

ORDER 100 PIZZAS FOR OBAMA

FLEE COUNTRY

[BabylonHoruv]

A global guerrilla strategy is only useful for creating the kind of chaos where local actors can then seize power.

Unless you're only using it as a stepping stone towards ruling a country, supplying order is a better route to global power than supplying disorder.

Well, network disruption could be combined with supply of alternate networks.  Set up a mesh potato wireless network for instance, before cutting the internet cables.  The problem is that it is far easier to spread disorder if the target is always changing, that makes it harder for the authorities to anticipate where the strike will come next, and providing a wide array of alternate networks takes a lot more time and effort than destroying the ones in place.

[Chairman Risus]

I'd blow up the entire thing.

It wouldn't be much to look at afterwards, but it'd be mine.