>you don't. Ever since, people have tried to use assassination as a tool for >this genre of warfare. The problem is reprisals and replacement.
First, assassinations work, but must be done properly and on a massive scale. It's called "war" and it depletes the replacements for sure. Second, what AP proponents do not realise, is that working AP would greatly cut the costs incurred by the state, and that the state would be the single most important user of the AP.