The targets were individuals believed by the French government to have taken people as hostages or done things that hurt French interests. Hollande’s kill list was inspired by the US disposition matrix that we already talked about. įrance used to have a hit list-at least when Francois Hollande was president. The government insists that the matrix is merely a form of defense against people threatening the US.
Nevertheless, the US government denies that the disposition matrix is a kill list. Between 20, over 400 Pakistanis died due to 330 US drone strikes.
Drone strikes also kill lots of civilians. The disposition matrix has been criticized because it supposedly contains names of people who might not be terrorists. Most were suspected jihadists in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. In rare instances, they arrested and interrogated the targets. Once names were approved, the military and the CIA tracked the suspects and killed them with drone-launched missiles or covert special forces assaults. The names were added by US military and intelligence officials and, sometimes, the British government. At the time that Barack Obama was president, the government decided who got on the list during weekly meetings the press called “Terror Tuesday.” Obama only approved the list. While the existence of the list is an open secret, the names on it aren’t. To be fair, though, to argue in your favour, if mamluks or ottomans are picked, picking the other country is usually interpreted as "I want a 1v1 at game start", which is why it's usually not considered a fun combo for games where you want everyone playing to be able to continue in future sessions.The US government has a not-so-secret hit list, the “disposition matrix,” that contains the names, locations, and preferred methods of killing people the government considers enemies of the United States. Mamluks have an incentive to declare as soon as they can because they start a bit stronger, which means ottomans, instead of expanding into byzantium, need to focus on preparing for a war with mamluks as soon as possible which often involves taking the countries bordering them, and after that ottomans then have an incentive themselves to declare as soon as possible because they start out with a 6/5/6 ruler and thus will get military techs and ideas before mamlukesĮssentially their whole starting situation is made in a way that it encourages a very early war to make the other unable to contest you in the future, after which you essentially just cant resist in any meaningful way and might as well leave the game since once you lose another war, chances are you're almost guaranteed to lose the next one Ever ambitious, he too is likely to seize opportunity at a moment of strife for his own personal gain.Ĭlick to expand.i mean it's not completely out of the question for a mamluks and ottomans to co-exist but it's usually much better to kill the other On the other hand, the ambitious and highly skilled condottiero Ludovico Sforza has made quite the reputation for himself during Milan's recent struggles, where he has now been haphazardly given influence by the Viscontis in their court. Despite these attempts to bolster support for the family, the cities of Lombardy contained within the duchy reluctantly accept ducal rule, with recent actions sparking notions for the return of the Republic of Saint Ambrose a Golden Ambrosian Republic. Cornered in Northern Italy by Venice, Florence, and Genoa, the ambitious Duke Filippo Maria Visconti seeks to reclaim Milan's rightful territory, as well as seize hegemony over Northern Italy, and subsequently the entire peninsula.Ī relatively young state, the Duchy of Milan dates back only to 1395 since then, its rulers, the currently empowered Visconti family, have fought hard within the state as much as beyond its borders to establish lasting authority. 1444 The Duchy of Milan in 1444 reels from its recent defeats in the Italian Wars, where it saw the rightful Milanese possessions of Brescia and Bergamo stripped away by the merchant republic of Venice.
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