Salvo attacks require reconnaissance to know which targets are already destroyed

Evidence

This assumes that he fires his missiles all together or that, if he fires successive salvos, he has no means of reconnaissance that lets him know, on successive salvos, which particular missiles have already destroyed their targets. — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 836

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Drone war’s core task shifted from destroying enemies to finding and tracking them; Signature strikes kill based on behavior patterns, not confirmed identity; Drone targeting decisions rest on probabilistic inference from behavior rather than observed facts. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 482

Related

• Drones produce constant terror because targets never know when they are tracked. (similarity 0.79)
• Drone war’s core task shifted from destroying enemies to finding and tracking them (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Drone war’s core task shifted from destroying enemies to finding and tracking them #corroborates (0.75)
• Signature strikes kill based on behavior patterns, not confirmed identity #corroborates (0.70)
• Drone targeting decisions rest on probabilistic inference from behavior rather than observed facts. #corroborates (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 482