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Entire military is going to be in on it anyway. Pick a few dips in ACUs, find their families. Hearts and minds? We're assuming shit like martial law, civilian drone casualties, all that jazz. No one's going to give a fuck whether you get the mess hall monkeys' families or the drone operators' families. The strong-arms of the government are going to be in "completely unsympathetic" territory. Military will quickly try and move families into protective custody, of course, and they're not going to like that. Move on to the families of any other government official. Use them as human shields against drone strikes.But the question then is how do you know which people are family to the drone operators and before that, how does one know who the drone operators are? Questions like tend to go unanswered and grabbing the wrong person to take hostage would greatly undermine the credibility of any insurgency trying to win over the hearts and minds of people.
We are talking something that would cause a collapse of the United States itself, obviously. There's no way around that if Uncle Sam gets that bug up his ass and everyone should know that. This kind of thing is basically a suicide pact - if you treat the citizenry like tangos and POWs, expect bad things to happen. Still, it's not likely to ever actually happen because Uncle Sam loses HARD in most of those scenarios. Interesting thought exercise, though.