Can't start a fire without smoke? Even a whiff of smoke can trigger instinctive fire-avoidance.

Part 1

How to move the firestorm across firebreaks and over firewalls? Desperation, panic, mistakes.

Raptors spreading fire by beak and talon?

Kewl.

Interdasting analogy that turns on its head pro-Hussein tactic of not letting a crisis go to waste.

Flush-out smaller prey. Cultivate grasslands for the larger prey. Smoke. Fire. Smoke and fire. Killing frenzy. Feeding frenzy. No deals.

Firehawks.

Part 2

Firehawks.

Part 3

Ours or theirs? Tactic with full control or tactic that takes advantage of cover of wildfires?

Fire spreading Raptors.

Legend or real?

Political landscape mapped, firebreaks understood, prevailing weather conditions estimated, predator v. prey.

Firehawks, the fire spreading Raptors.

Part 5 of 5

Once the phenom is understood, the raptors can become the prey. Natural behavior draws them to frontlines of wildfires (controlled?) and this creates target rich environment.

Use their predating behavior as a predictive factor in mapping the terrain? Mysterious no more.

Does the analogy spark revisits to the Q Posts about what is a map?

Declas = Casdel = Scaled = Decals

Deciphering the firehawks. Using their instincts to turn predator into prey.

The Hunters become the Hunted?